kingdoms, reads descriptions that awake his wishes to enjoy and nerve the hand of diligence, to get in full possession those productions which shall pave a way to fresh and interesting chemical discoveries. Hence we gain acquaintance with the simples and compounds, of every object that becomes the subject of investigation, and the different principles which constitutes the whole of every body. All the several virtues, drawn from what composes these three kingdoms, are appropriated to the purposes of medicine, and our restoration from the thorny couch of illness to the downy seats of blooming health. Here, in noon-day glory, shines conspicuously great the matchless service of Philosophers. By their assistance we can visit wan affiction's dreary cot, and lead the thin emaciated victim of disease from death's dark regions, to the realms of day transform the meagre looks of hunger to the ruddy glow of rich abundance, and where sorrow once bedewed every cheek, impress the smile of ease. In the departments of Philosophy that have engaged our attention, it is very evident how much more service it has done the public, than the most assiduous care of the industrious man of business. Oh thou, bounteous source of our enjoyments! may thy smiles continue to illume the world, and all the human race acknowledge thee their benefactor, and engrave thy admirable lessons on their minds ! Νου. 11, 1801. D ASMOTH SEMIAH. LAKE OF WINANDERMERE. IFFERENT countries have produced persons with genius or talent for particular pursuits, and in the same country, learning, wit, and poets, have appeared more in one age than in another, and different places have claimed the honour of giving birth to heroes and men of eminence. I know not whether the place of Homer's nativity, or the locality of Troy walls be exactly ascertained, but you may inform your readers (and particularly those who make a tour to the Lakes) that in these latter days, more men of letters, genius and science, and of learned professions, have been born on the banks, or within five miles, of the famous lake Winandermere, in England, than in any other part of the world of the same extent, and within the like space of time, that we know, or have read of; for instance, The late Edwin Sandys, Lord Archbishop of York-Sir W. Rawlinson, one of the First Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal of England-Robert Rawlinson, Esq. Chief Justice of Chester, &c.-Daniel Rawlinson, Citizen of London-and Doctor Law, Lord Bishop of Carlisle (one of whose sons was also mitred during the father's episcopacy) were all born (near each other) within three miles of the Lake, and were the ancestors of great and respectable families now in being. The late Launcelot Addison, Dean of Litchfield, and father of the celebrated and highly eminent Joseph Addison, Esq.-Doctor Anthony Askew, the great Grecian of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital.-Dr. R. Burn, author of Justice's Law, &c.-The learned Mr. Moore, of Rugby, father of Dr. John Moore, late Lord Bishop of Ely.-Richard, the father of the late ingenious and inimitable artist, William Hogarth.-Dr. Fothergill, late Provost of Queen's College, Oxford. -Dr. J. Fothergill, a very eminent Physician of London.-Dr. Preston, late Lord Bishop of Killala and Ferns.-Dr. Postlethwaite, late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.-Dr. T. Shawe, late principal of St. Edmund's-Hall, Oxford, and regius professor of Greek.-Dr. Shepherd, late professor of experimental philosophy at Cambridge.Sir J. Wilson, late one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster.-The Rev. John Smith, famed for his historical works of the venerable Bede.-The Rev. John Taylor, noted for his Hebrew-English Concordance. Thomas Tickell, Esq. an ingenious poet and author, and contempo rary with ddison, Steele, &c.-Mr. Thomas Toylor, who compiled the best book of Logarithins ever published.-Dr. Watson, the present Lord Bishop of Landaff.-Dr. Sir Isaac Pennington, the regius professor of physic.-Sir Alan Chambre, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas.-Dr. Ainslie, of the College of Physicians.-D. Braithwaite, Esq. F. R. S.-Adam Walker, Esq. the philosophic lecturer.-Dr. Thomas Garnett, the natural philosopher.-Romney, Cranke, Gardner, three ingenious artists. And Messrs. Millars, Ainslie, Hall, Bell, and Harrison, three young gentlemen of great promise in the university of Cambridge, and at the bar. It has been supposed, that the ancestors of the noble Lord Nelson, Duke of Bronti, were born on the Banks of this Mere. OF FRIENDSHIP. BY LORD BACON. Extracted from Jones's elegant Edition of Bacon's Essays, lately published. FROM ROM the Work above mentioned, we have made the following extract for the perusal of our readers, not at all doubting but that they will prove very acceptable. It had been hard for him that speak it, to have more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god;" for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue, that it should have any character at all of the divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation: such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the hea then; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Ro man, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the an cient hermits, and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; "magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods: but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind: you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain, but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship whereof we speak so great as they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness: for princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except, (to make themselves capable thereof,) they raise some persons to be as it were companions and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience. The modern languages give unto such persons the name of favourites, or privadoes, as if it were matter of grace or conversation; but the Roman name attaineth the true use and cause thereof, naming them "participes curarum," for it is that which tieth the knot: and we see plainly that this hath been done, not by weak and pas+ sionate princes only, but by the wisest and most politic that ever reigned, who have oftentimes joined to themselves some of their servants, whom both themselves have called friends, and allowed others likewise to call them in the same manner, using the word which is received between private men. L. Sylla, when he commanded Rome, raised Pompey, (after surnamed the great,) to that height, that Pompey vaunted himself for Sylla's over-match; for when he had carried the cousulship for a friend of his against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great, Pompey turned upon him again, and in effect bade him be quiet; for that more men adored the sun rising than the sun setting. With Julius Cæsar Decimus Brutus had obtained that interest, as he set him down in his testament for heir in remainder B |