fuch and fuch heads of Bills, which he meant to introduce into the Hofe in the enfuing feffions. The gentleman, out of civility to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a few obfervations, by way of getting rid of the bufinefs, but this did not fatisfy Mr. Grenville; he continued his enquiries, 'till the gentleruan, under fome pretence, fhifted his feat; when the other, fpying an ink-ftand on one of the harpfichords, very deliberately walked up to it, and minuted his obfervations. When his brother, James Grenville, heard this story, he exclaimed, "Good G-d, how like George! A pen and ink to him is wh~~~g and drinking." -g BISHOP BERKELEY. This excellent and ingenious man, to whom Pope pays this unbounded compliment, « To Berekley every virtue under heaveh," in the courfe of one of his vifitations, fpent a few days with a Dr. Philips, an old clerical bachelor in his diocese, as remarkable for the neatness of his houfe and grounds as the plainnefs of his perfon. The Doctor, who had just finished fome fine improvements, which he was very fond of, carried the Bishop over his grounds the morning after his arrival, and SIR, Ou took great pains to point out the feveral The above prelate having written a well-known ingenious treatife on the nonexiftence of matter, was foon after returning from the Royal Society with a friend, and, the night being very dark, he ran his head against a poft, which made him cry out he was much hurt. "Poh! poh!" fays the friend, "how can you complain, when you know it's no mat ter Dr. Berkeley was Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, a fee worth then not above 1300l. a-year: but though he was offered the Bishoprick of Meath, worth 3000l. ayear, and through that might look up to the Primacy, he contented himself with what he had, faying, "the air of Cloyne agreed fo well with his conftitution, and his friends and neighbours fo well with his happiness, that he'd run no rifques.' He accordingly died Bifhop of Cloyne. AMWELL REGISTER. To the EDITOR of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE. I am, &c. THE following Extracts from the Regifter Book of the Parish of Amwell, near Ware, in Hertfordaire, were made fome time ago. They may probably afford fome Entertainment to your Readers, and therefore I folicit the Infertion of them in your Magazine. C. D. THE REGISTER BOOKE of the NAMES and SURNAMES of them who have beene CHRISTENed, married, and BURIED, from the FIRST YERE "of the RAYGNE of our SOVERAIGNE LADYE ELIZABETHE, being Anno Domini 1558. R 1567. OBERT SMYTH, Viccare of Amwell, was buried the xiith of Aprill. In the year 1 586 was Vicar Henry Bay. ford, a man very unworthy, fimple, and negligent in his place, who as he neglected his duty in the Church, fo alfo hee did VOL. XXX. 06t. 1796. elfewhere; for as farre as I cann perceive, there was no regifter kept in his dayes; bee after fome yeares refigned his livinge to Mr. Paytin, and betooke himself to fome other imployment. John Payton, Vicar of Amwell, the fixt day of Aprill, A° Dmi 1590. Anno Domini 1599. I Thomas Haffall, borne in the City of London, in the parish of St. Peeters, the Evangell, fometyme a member of Trinitye Colleige, in Cambridge, where I commenced Matter of Arts, was initituted and inducted into the reall and ac tual poffeffion of this Vicaredge of Amwell Magna the first daye of Februarye Kk according The faid Thomas Haffall departed this life at Amwell, Sept. 24, Thursday, and was buried the Saturday following Sept. 26, in the year 1657, and Ifaac Craven, of Aufone, in the County of Hartford, Clerke, preachinge for him upon this text, Gen. 35. v. 29, and Auguftine Rolfe, of Stanfted Abbott, in the fame County, Clarke, buryinge him by the booke of Common Prayer, accordinge to his defire. Dum vixit---In æternum vivat et valeat. At the end of the first year, is the following note. Note, That the account of this booke for Marriages, Chriftnings, Burialis, fince my cumminge, hath not binne kept accordinge to the Computation of the Church of England, beginninge the yeare the xxvth day of March, but beginninge each yeare the first daye of January, which I have thought good to note for avoydinge question. By me Tho: Haffall. 1599. George Sounevaigne, an owld man bagpipe player, of no certayne dwellinge, dyed at Ware end, and was buried the viiith of Maye. 1603. Buried in all the yeare 41. Of the Plage 19. Thys fatal and fearfull yeare was the yeare wearin our Queene Élizabethe, of famofe memory, lefte her life and raigne in England, beinge the first yeare of Kinge James, (whofe life God longe continue), beinge the yeare of the greateft and moft generall plage in this realme, y fell us in the remembrance of man, whereof many died within this parish, whom I have noted with a starre to dif tinguish them from the reft. I buried of this disease 6 in one daye, God in mercye turn this and all other his plages from us. By mee Thomas Haffall, Vicar. 1603-4. Mafter John Goodman, a Cownseller and a Juftice of Peace, died at his houfe in Hodidon-end, within our parish of Amwell, the 5th of Auguft, and wa buried the 8th day at night. His funeralls were folemnly kept the xvith day followynge; he lieth in the chauncel un der the Communion table, next to the grave of owld Graves wife, (now covered with tiles) underneath a part of the bourdes. 1608-9. Mafter William Warner, a man of good yeares, and of honeft reputation; by his profeffion an Atturnye at the Commo Plefe, Author of Albions England; diinge fuddenly in the nyght in his bedde, without any former complaynt or fick neffe, on Thursday nyght beeinge the oth daye of March, and was buried the Satur day following, and lyeth in the church, at the upper end under the ftone of Gwalter Slades. 1618. Robert Thomfon, of Hodfdon-end, the moft ancient of our inhabitants of Amwell, a man aged above an hundred yeares, was buried July the xth. 1622-23. January 6th, a poor youth travelling and falinge fick by the way, died at Haly, a grave being made to bury him; one Izabell Covart, a widowe, travelling, by the way died at Ware end, and was by the Cunftables brought and layd in that After 1615 the Register is kept in another hand, but regularly figned at the end of each year, Tho. Hall, Vicar, 1625. William, the fonne of Samuel Deards, of Ware, was the first that died of the plague, and was buried the xxivth of Julye. Lorde have mercy uppon us and turne thy judgment from us for Jefus Christ his fake, Amen, Robert and Elizabeth, the fonne and daughter of Samuel Deards, dijed both in one daye of the plague, and were burried both together in one grave by a cupple of foldiers, the thirde daye of August. Fabye Andrye, a widdowe, of Ware, put into Samuel Deards his howfe, as a keeper, dyed there alfo of the plague, and was buried by a poore travellinge woman, Anguit xith, Sufan, the wife of John Sanders, a bargeman, dyed of the plague, within the howie of Samuel Deards, at Wareend, and brought to church by her cwn mother, buried Aug. xiiiith. John Sanders, himfelfe cumminge fick from London, and going to his wife's mother's howie in Ware, was forced out of his bed by the inhabitants of Ware, and dent into our parrish to Sam. Deards his howie, where he died of the plague, buried Aug. xvith. 1626-27. A Chrifom Childe fone John Rents, of Hodidon, borne in the Almshoufes, was buried Februarye xxvth. 1634. John Allen, one of the antient inhabit, ants of Amwell, aged above fourscore yeares, a laboringe man and of good and honeft reputation; a pentioner to the New River, to clenfe and keepe the head; an old fervant to the Churche, to guarde the Chappell doore, to controle unrulye boyes, and correct intrudinge doggs, livinge always poorely but never milerably, died, and was buried from Hodfdon, Decemb, 1. 1634-35. Edward Shadbolt, of Amwell, a labouring man, of above threeicore and ten yeares of age, allways a good labourer, no fpender, without children, feldome eate good meate, or dranke good drinke, or ware good clcathes, yet lived and dyed very p ore, and miferable, buried Maye the xxiiith, To the EDITOR of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE. Kent, Sept. 17, 1796. ting forth he could have made other purchafes, which would have, brought him a ftill better intereft for his money; and that Sir William Petty's defcendant was made Earl of Shelburne; but he dying without heirs male, for his fon died before him, left the eftate back again to the right heir of the Fitzmau rices, upon condition they should take the furname of Petty, which was done accordingly, and he was created Earl of Shelburne, and fince Marquis of Lanfdown. I am, Sir, your humble Servant, SENEX. SIR, ASI perceive you thought fit to print the Anecdote I fent you about King Theodore of Corfica, the fame regard for truth makes me defirous to correct a miftake you are fallen into, in p. 81, of your Magazine for Auguft, wherein you say Sir William Petty was Anceftor to the prefent Marquis of Lanfdown. Sir Wm. Petty went to Ireland, and there bought the eftates of the antient and noble family of the Fitz Maurices, very cheap I fuppofe, as the price of forfeited eftates then went tow, tho' I have feen a Pamphlet or Letter published by Sir William about this very point, and fetThe Poet. In July and December two of the name of Warner, Anthony and Nicholas, KK 2. were married. THE Inftitutes of Hindu Law: or, the Ordinances of Menu, according to the Gloss of Cullúca comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil. Verbally tranflated from the original Sanicrit. With a Preface, by Sir William Jones. Calcutta. Printed by Order of the Government. London: reprinted for J. Sewell, Cornhill, and J. Debrett, Piccadilly. 1796. bable, that the laws now brought to light, were confiderably older than thofe of Solon, or even of Lycurgus, although the promulgation of them, before they were reduced to writing, might have been coeval with the first monarchies establish. THE Code of Laws, civil and religious, by which a great country has been governed for ages, becomes an authentic and unequivocal evidence of its manners and history. The volume therefore now prefented to the Public, as it exhibits the principles of conduct and penal fanced in Egypt or Afia: but, having had the tions by which the morals have been di rected, and the vices controuled, of an extenfive and celebrated portion of Afia, for more than three thouland years, mult afford a very ample, and an equally interefting fubject of enquiry. But there is another circumftance which recommends this work to our peculiar regard. It is among the laft labours of a very eminent and industrious ícholar, whole exertions in the caule of literature and of mankind death has prematurely interrupted. That he has not left his equal behind him, for genius and for diligence, it may be thought extravagant to maintain. But where fhall we look for his perfevering courage, and ardour of curiofity? The thift for wealth has always excited, and will till continue to excite, thousands to brave the perils of the ocean, and the utmost feves rities of climate. Itwas referved for Sir W. Jones, and perhaps for him alone, to purfue knowledge with unabated ardour and unexampled fuccefs, in defiance of the fcorching funs of India, and the still more dangerous allurements of its treafures. Of the high antiquity of thee Infti. tutes, Sir William, in his Preface, offers the following original, and very fatisfac tory, opinion. “It must, at first view, seem very pro fingular good-fortune to procure ancient copies of eleven upanifbads, with a very perspicuous comment, I am enabled to fix, with more exactness, the probable age of the work before us, by a mode of reafoning which may be thought new, but will be found, I perfuade myself, fatisfac tory; if the Public fhall, on this occafion, give me credit for a few very curious facts, which, though capable of ftrict proof, çan at preient only be alferted. The Sanferit of the three first Vedas (I need not here fpeak of the fourth), that of the Manava Dberma Saftra, and that of the Puranas, differ from each other in pretty exact proportion to the Latin of NUMA, from whole laws entire fentences are preferved, that of APPIUS, which we fee in the fragments of the Twelve Tables, and that of CICERO, or of LUCRETIUS, where he has not affected an obsolete ftyle: if the feveral changes, therefore, of Sanferit and Latin took place, as we may fairly affume, in times very nearly proportional, the dus muft have been written about 300 years before thefe Inftitutes, and about 600 before the Puráras and lubafas, which, I am fully con vinced, were not the productions of VYfo that, if the ton of PARASARA committed the traditional Fedas to writ ASA i ing in the Sanferit of his father's time, the original of this-book must have received its prefent form about 880 years before CHRIST's birth. If the texts, indeed, which VYASA collected, had been actually written in a much older dialect, by the fages preceding him, we muft inquire into the greateft poffible age of the Vedas themielves: now one of the longeft and finest Upanishads in the fecond Veda Contains three lifts, in a regular feries upwards, of at moft forty-two pupils and preceptors, who fucceffively received and tranfmitted (probably by oral tradition) the doctrines contained in that Upanifbad; and as the old Indian priefts were ftudents at fifteen, and instructors at twenty-five, we cannot allow more than ten years, on an average, for each interval between the refpective traditions; whence, as there are forty fuch intervals, in two of the lifts between VYASA, who arranged the whole work, and AYASA, who is extolled at the beginning of it, and juft as many, in the third lift, between the compiler and YAJNYAWALCYA, who makes the principal figure in it, we find the highest age of the Yagur Veda to he 1580 years before the birth of Our Saviour (which would make it older than the Five Books of MOSES), and that of our Indian law tract about 1280 years before the fame epoch. The former date, however, feems the more probable of the two, becaule the Hindu Sages are faid to have delivered their knowledge orally, and the very word Sruta, which we often fee uled for the Veda itself, means what was beard, not to infift that Culluca exprefsly declares the fenfe of the Péda to be conveyed in the language of Vyafa. Whether MENU OF MENUS in the nominative, 2nd MENOS in an oblique cafe, was the fame perfonage with MINO'S, let others determine; but he must indubitably have been far older than the work which contains his laws, and though perhaps he was never in Crete, yet iome of his inftitutions may well have been adopted in that ifland, whence Lycurgus, a century or two afterwards, may have imported them to Sparta." Sir William Jones informs us, in a fubfequent part of his Preface, that the firft MENU of the Brahmens was, proba bly, no other perfon than the progenitor of mankind, to whom Jews, Chriftians, and Muffelmans, unite in giving the name of ADAM, He further affures us, that the work before us forms a confiderable part of the Hindu fcripture, without the duinefs of its prophane ritual, or much of its myftical jargon. On the fubject of the Glofs of Culluça, which Sir William Jones has adopted to explain the principal work, he is very emphatical in commendation; pronouncing it to be the fhorteft, yet the moft luminous; the leaft oftentatious, yet the most learned the deepest, yet the most agreeable commentary ever compofed, on any author, antient or modern, European or Afiatic. His text and interpretation, Sir Wil liam Jones tells us, he has almoft impli citly followed, though he had himself collated many copies of MENU, and among them a MS. of a very ancient date. His glofs is printed in Italics; and any reader, who may choose to pass it over, as if unprinted, will have in Roman characters, an exact verfion of the origi nal, and may form fome idea of its character and structure, as well as of the Sanferit idiom, which must neceffarily be preferved in a verbal translation. Our Author very properly fubjoins, that tranflation, not fcrupulously verbal, would have been highly improper in a work on fo delicate and momentous a fubject as private and criminal jurifprudence. It is our duty farther to apprife our Readers, that these Inftitutes, as it appears from this Preface, are a work of no common dignity and eftimation in the country for whole inftruction they were promulged. The Brahmen, who read it with Sir William Jones, requefted moit earneftly that his name might be concealed; nor would he have read it, for any confideration, on a forbidden day of the moon, or without the ceremonies preicribed in the fecond and fourth chapters for a lecture on the Veda, So great, indeed, is the idea of fanctity annexed to this book, that, when the chief native magiftrate at Benares endeavoured, at Sir William Jones's requeft, to procure a Perfian tranflation, before our Author had a hope of being, at any time, able to understand the original, the Pandits of his court unanimoufly and pofitively refufed to affift in the work; nor would it have been procured at all, if a wealthy Hindu, at Gaya, had not caufed the ver fion to be made by fome of his dependants, at the defire of Sir William's friend, Mr. Law. Our Author concludes his Preface with the following able and judicious remarks on this work; and our Readers will, we doubt not, confider them as fuperfèding all other criticism. "The |