by fuppofing that when men spring from the calu duties of private life, to the heights of religious or political the ory and fpeculation, they always deferve to be confidered as harmless. It is my duty, therefore, to inform this Correfpondent, that harmless is an unfortunate word, when applied to the human character; it is what no gentleman will put up with, and indeed, I ain afraid, very few ladies; certainly none of thofe who are moft confpicuous in the records of high and gay life. Let my Correfpondent furvey the most diftinguifhed characters in the fashionable world, and confider how many of them would think it an honour, or rather would not think it a difgrace, to be handed down to pofterity as a "harmless tribe" Let him look at the tombfiones which have very nearly exhaufied the language of panegyric, and fee if he can find fuch a word as harmlefs. Let him confult the language of modern times, and modern focieties, and afk whether harmless is not by general confent deemed fynonymous with Jneaking, poor-fpirited, and other epithets applied to thofe obfcure beings "whom nobody knows." Having thus endeavoured to fet my Correfpondent right in a matter which he will find of great importance, if he has any connexion with the living world; I might proceed to refent what he has advanced refpecting the "vifions, Utopian fchemes, and air-built caftles, of the Projectors;" but it will be more charitable in me to pafs at once to the requeft he has made, that I fhould fall afleep as faft as I can." This requires much confideration, and I fhall be happy if by any means I can draw the attention of my readers to the fubject. Sleep is a phænomenon which philofophers have not yet explained in a very fatisfactory manner. If we attend to common language, we ought to believe that mankind are always afleep, and that when they neglect any necellary precaution, or omit any neceffary duty, it is “because they never dreamt of it." At this rate, what with the French death, which is an eternal fleep, and an English life, which is no better, how few are there who pafs their time awake, and with their eyes open! But I truft we fhall not adimit this compromife between the dormant philofophy of the two nations, which in fact would make the whole of exiftence a paffage between one dofe and another. It is more for our purpose, as PROJECTORS, to perfuade our rea-, ders that, however long they may chuse to continue their nap, and whatever dreams they may enjoy the meanwhile, they must one day or other route themfelves, examine how long they have flept, and what they have to do now they are refiored to activity. Of the fleep of life, fome undoubt. edly enjoy too much: they never feem wide awake; and we know they are alive only by certain motions, twitchings, and convulfions, in which they are neither wholly active nor paffive. Such, I take it, are the men of mere pleasure. Their dreams are probably very pleafaut, as they complain bitterly if awakened; and in general it is found extremely difficult to roufe them, while a fingle illufion, or, as fome call it, delufion, remains to lock up their fenfes. But it is neceflary for fuch to know, that the longeft fleep must have an end, that fleep protracted beyond a certain time cannot be called reft, nor adminifters any of its ftrengthening comforts; and that, during this tedious infenfibili y, all that is worth feeing in life paffes unobferved, and the man awakes with a difturbed recollection of a variety of confused and inconfiftent vifions, which leave no regular impreflion on the mind, and even by the beft memories cannot be narrated without visible difatisfaction, and a very lively fenfe of fhame. From this sketch of one defcription of fleepers, it will appear, what is really the cafe,that there is a fleep of the mind as well as of the body, and that we have no reafon to think men are awake merely because they may be parading the streets either on foot or in carriages. I have known many men faft afleep while on a full gallop'; and others employed with the utmost apparent activity of body and limbs, who neverthelefs were fo oppreffed with fleep as not to be confcious of what was paffing, nor to perceive the multitudes that were gazing with wonder a man performing that with his eyes open, which was never conceived to be practicable but in the wildest dreams. I have at this monient a young gentleman in my eye, who lately fucceeded to a large eftate; fcarcely was his father laid in the grave, when he began to yawn and gape, and could not keep his eyes open for an hour together; it is thought that fome injudi may be permitted to doubt, whether thofe tumultuous routs at which five or fix hundred perfons affemble to pafs the time in confufion, without conve cious friend has given him fudorifics infiead of cordials; but whether this be the cafe, it is certain he is now in his first fleep; and I know by fure fymptoms, that although many ima-nience, even with danger, without fogine he is awake and lively, he will foon be convinced of the contrary, and will one morning, when he opens his eyes, be aftonifhed to find he has been conveyed, bed and all, to a very large building in St. George's fields. My readers may catily conceive how he will ftare, when he looks round, and finds himself in a room fo difproportioned to his elegant apartments in Weftinfier; and especially when he endeavours to recollect by what means fuch a change could have been effected, and who the enchanters were that could, without his knowledge, remove him to a place which, however horrid, he has no means of quitting. Cafes of this kind are fo common, indeed, that I fhall perhaps be blamed for introducing what has fo little the appearance of invention, and what is fo confiftent with the commos theory of fleep. But it is yet neceflary to repeat that, however common, the prac tice of walking in one's fleep is one of the molt dangerous. This, I flatter myfelf, cannot be too often repeated. "Quædam," fays Seneca, funt repe tenda, quædam inculcanda." And if the little that has now been advanced fhould prevail on one perfon only to guard his eye-lids. the PROJECTOR will not have written in vain. I hope I fhall be excufed, if I add, that many of the fair fex appear lately to have fain in a dormant fiate; and that much of what they account pleafure is but a confused dream, which they cannot repeat fo as to give it the appearance of anything rational and consilient. Nothing, for example, feems fo unlike the motionless ftate of fleep as dancing; and yet even in that amufement, if my information be not incorrect, feveral have been caught napping, and those liberties and advantages taken with them, which we may be certain they never would have permitted had they been awake. Pleafant dreams, we are told, imply bodily health; but this is not the cafe with the fleep of the mind. The more pleafant the dreams then, the more unpleasant the awakening; and the more obvious is it that the mind is in a weak and difordered flate. Without being faftidious in fuch matters, I hope I cial comforts, and even with frequent alarins, are not a fpecies of dreams the effect of fome foporific adminiftered by the Pandora of fathion. The fame remark may be extended with more cer tainty to thofe Dormitories called maf querades, but it is fome confolation that they are now seldom frequented by perfons who are awake to their cha racter, but by a clafs with whom waking and fleeping are fyuonyinous, who are obferved to drop from one paroxyfm of lethargy into another with out any visible change, and who are known to be dead only by the length of the fit. I hope I may be permitted to add, that there are times when a greater degree of fleep may be allowable than would be at all proper or confifient at others. During peace, for example, a greater number of perfons may take this indul-› gence, and the confequences be confined to themfelves. but, under the circumftances in which the Nation is at prefent placed, I trust it will appear that the utmost vigilance is neceflary, and that men of all ranks will be convinced that vigilance and fleep are incompatible. It may, indeed, be faid that our enemy is now indulging certain dreams, which he wishes to realize in this country; and that all we have to do is to awaken him, or bring him to his fenfes. Undoubtedly the latter would be very defireable, if it were known where his fenfes refide; but in ' either cafe we muft obferve, that we cannot roufe another, and remain inactive ourselves. It would therefore be expedient, for a time, to fufpend these long naps to which I have alluded in this paper, and to guard ourfelves as men who have all their fenfes about them. It will be very difficult to combine fuch “vifions of the_night," as the news-papers detail every day, with thofe exertions and thofe facrifices which, our rulers inform us, must now be made for the preservation of the only bleffings which render life defireable. But, as Projects of this kind are not ftri&ly within my province, 1 fhall expatiate no farther on a fubject which may be handed with fo much more ad vantage in other quarters. I do not, however, trefpafs by requiring that thofe thofe who perfift in their fleep shall at leaf ceafe from the too common practice of telling their dreams," in order that others who have more important business to tranfact may not be difturbed by fuch reveries. The time is come, when our dreamers fhould either be filent, or ashamed. nor the smallest reafon to entertain a fufpicion, that Mr. Thomas Warton was a contributor to that work. His brother Jofeph's thare is well known: the papers figned A. which are the only ones remarkable for "exquifite hu mour and pleafant ridicule," belong either to Bathurst, or far more probably to Bonnel Thornton; and the reft are attributed to Hawkesworth, Johnson, &c. on fuch authority that there appears no room for another great contributor. To revert to the fubject of my Correfpondent's letter, I hope he will agree with me, that we cannot dream to much advantage at tiines when we are liable to have our reft difturbed; yet as the feafon is now come when the PROJECTOR will retire to his country lodgings, to meditate fchemes for the good of the publick, it is not impoffible he may find, amidst the folitudes of Horn fey, a quiet night to comply with his Correfpondent's requeft. I cannot fay, however, that the multitude of precedents to which my Correfpondent alludes have an encouraging effect; they rather deter me from undertaking what has been executed fo well as to bid defiance to rivalship; and if I find that the dream does not come kindly, I fhall certainly be careful how I meddle with it. A PROJECTOR is by trade a mau of originality and pure invention; and I muli take care, in obliging my Corre fpondent, left I be caught in the very fact of fealing a nap from the Tatler, MR. SNELLING, in his Hiftory of or Spectator. Mr. URBAN, June 3. IN Your laft Magazine, appeared fome" Remarks on Mr. Mant's late publication of Mr. Warton's Poetical Works," p. 396, 397, in which is the following paffage. Your Correfpondent, therefore, who figns " A Friend to the Author," will lay me under a very confiderable obligation, if he can review the fubject, and fpecify any one paper written by Mr. T. Warton; and particularly if he will explain why Mr. Warton declined being the conductor of a work of which all literary history has hitherto afcribed the origin and conduct to Hawkefworth. I hope I may be permitted to extend the prefent request to what your Correfpondent fays of the World and Connoifeur; and to hint, that he has omitted to fay any thing of the papers Mr. Warton wrote for the Idler. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, A. C. June 13. the Tradefinen's Tokens coined about the time of Charles the Second, fays that he is unable to tell the profel 66 fion of Jeremy Butler, at Shooelane end, Smoker." Perhaps it may at first be thought that a Smoker was but a dealer in fimoked provifions; but this opinion must be changed by the follow"Mr. Mant mentions his author being evidences to the contrary. Holme, ing concerned in the periodical work in- in his Academy of Armory, book III. tituled "the Adventurer :" he poffibly chap. 5, fays, did not know that Mr. Warton was a very great contributor to that ingenious work, although not the chief conductor, which he declined." The Remarker goes on to fay that he cannot particufarize which are his papers, but ventures to affirm" that their number was great. They were full of exquifite humour, and pleafant ridicule on the then reigning follies of that day." Now, Mr. Urban, if you recollect my hand-writing, you will know that it is of fome importance to me to have this matter explained a little farther. In my humble capacity as Editor of the laft edition of the ADVENTURER, I endeavoured to afcertain the authors of each paper; but never had a fufpicion, "He beareth, Vert, two tobacco pipes in faltire, and a standing round plate with /tobacco on it, all proper. This is the badge of all Tobacconists, and is born as the coat armour of the company of Smokers." Bailey's English Dictionary explains the word Smoker to mean aTobacconist. Dr. Johnfon, however, appears divided between two opinions; he defines a finoker, as "one that dries or perfumes by Smoke," or "one that uses tobacco." But it is probable that the Doctor did not confider a fioker as a perfon exercising a trade, but merely (according to the literal fenfe) one who fmokes. From this obfervation it ap pears clear, that the word Smoker was formerly ufed by dealers in tobacco, who who afterwards fubfiituted that of Tobacconist. And as a farther corroboration of this, on the reverfe of the token which Mr. Snelling engraves, is a figure in the form of a cone refembling those now used as figus by the dealers in tobacco. E. S. S. HENRY THE SEVENTH'S CHAPEL. "Henry the Seventh's chapel is the ad. miration of the Univerfe; fuch inimitable perfections appear in every part of the whole compofure, which looks fo far exceeding human excellence, that it appears knit together by the fingers of angels, purfuant to the direction of Omnipotence *." WHAT feeling heart, fufceptible to the "beautiful and fublime," but muft fervently fubfcribe to the above infpired fentiments! What feeling heart or eye, quickened with the light of confummate perfection in art, but must bow down to the all-fubduing power of Henry's enchanting fcene, which fhews the utmost ability and the end of all human grandeur! Each doorway, window, arch, compartment, niche, ftatue, yea the groined vault itself, all rush on the admiring fenfe as tending towards fomething that is facred and divine! We who thus participate in the glories of this Chapel, are but ill prepared to hear of the intended reparations, and all the unavoidable train of confequences belonging thereunto, that are about to take place on this ftructure; for it feems the order has or is to pafs, which configns thefe royal walls into the hands of workmen; hands which, by habit and long hoftility to our Antient Architecture, will have but a lukewarm tendernefs, either to protect or fave from farther harm their devoted wonders. We doubt thus, even from that Antiquarian care which has fo recently been made apparent on the neighbouring pile, St. Stephen's chapel; the pages of this Mifcellany conftantly enumerating and confirming the melancholy truths thereof. It is given out, that the operations on Henry's chapel are foon to commence, and that only one window at a time is to be restored; yet without any difguife we are at the faine tine informed, this restoration (strange logic!) is not to be according to the original defign, but according to what defign then? Weep, weep, votaries to England's antient architectural honours! Another and another innovation ftill fucceeds! In Ward's London Spy. active we fiand; we hear, we figh; we fee, and ftill we figh! Is there then no means, by foft perfuafion, by gentle remonftrance, or mild reprefentation, whereby that we dread may be averted? None! none! the faculties of the mind are weak, and fo is confederacy in Antiquarian virtue. On my part, then, I mut tingly, or at leaft protected by this Literary Sanctuary, ftand in the gap between what now is and what' henceforward may be, and merely with my pencil take a strict imitation of each original line before execution, and then note down, after fuch act, what repairs, alterations, or improvements, may be brought to país. The publick are highly interested in the fate of Henry's chapel; it is a national glory, therefore fhall it fade in man's remembrance and be forgotten? Forbid it, Tafte! forbid it, Hiftory! and let thofe who are Antiquaries by a na tural propenfity, as well as by the fo lemnity of an oath (otherwife " 'obligation") decreed by Royal Charter, cry, "We forbid it alfo!" J. C. Having had the honour of a clofe acquaintance with him myself, and been admitted to frequent interviews with him throughout the whole of his illness, without ever having witneffed or even heard of his recantation of any one doctrine which he had long profeiled, I could not but be extremely aftonished at this intelligence; yet, not chufing to contradict it from my own perfonal knowledge, I immediately applied for additional information to a variety of his moft intimate friends, all of whom were as much at a lofs as myself to comprehend what is meant by this ftudioufly-concealed recantation. I have fince confulted M. St. Martin, profeffor of Divinity, and a doctor of the Sarbonne, another of Dr. Geddes's very intimate friends, who attended him as his priest throughout the whole of his illness, and especially on the day preceding preceding his death, when he gave him abfolution confiftently with the rites of the Catholic community. On fhewing the paffage to M. St. Martin, he in ftantly declared that it was erroneous in every refpect that he should have been happy to have heard the Doctor's recantation upon feveral points concerning which he differed from the great body of the Catholic church-and that he had endeavoured to draw from him fome acknowledgment of error; but he added, that he was, unfortunately, fuccefsful in no inftance whatever, and is perfuaded that the Doctor died in the full belief of the fentiments he profefled during life. You will candidly admit, Sir, after fuch a statement, that the publick has a right to be informed of the fort of recantation here referred to, and of the bafis upon which such a report, as well as the ftudious concealment of the fact, repofes. To myfelf individually, I freely acknowledge fuch information would be particularly ferviceable, fince I am now engaged in publifhing a volume of memoirs of the Doctor's life and writings: and, fince in this purfuit truth is my only object, I here pledge myfelf to infert in my biography the recantation alluded to, be it what it may, the moment it is rendered even probable. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, אן JOHN MASON GOOD. June 7: N addition to R. O's obfervation, p. 408, I would remark that I fet a trap in hopes of catching the mice that, I thought, deftroyed my early grown peas, but, on further infpection, I found it was the fparrows that bit them off fhort juft as the bud came out of the ground. I firewed flaked lime over thofe that were not bit off, and it effectually preferved them. This must be done juft as they appear above ground, or before, and if rain comes on they muft be limed a fecond time, or oftener. I have adopted this method fome years, and always with fuccefs. D. Mr. URBAN, Woodmanfierne, June 11. friend of mine, fecing the "parti ftowed upon my curate there, although awkwardly expreiled, is, I believe, nerited; and lie has not misinformed your readers as to the names of my two immediate predeceffors in the vicarage; of the prefent curate, and the parishclerk; and of the lay-impropriator, and his tenants: but with this (which is, no doubt, very interefting informa tion,) the truth ends; for there is not another correct article of information in all the reft of his " particular defcription." But I fhould have pafied over all this in filence, if this well-informed defcriber of Northfleet church had not cloted his account with a grofs reflection upon all thofe who are concerned in the decent ordering of what belongs to it. He fays, "What with knapping of flints on tomb-ftones, fcattering rubbish, and breaking windows, they (the young generation), in some degree, transform this sanctuary (the church-yard) into a bear-garden." I fhall not remark upon the uncommon ufe of both thefe epithets; I fhall only fay, that the affertion is wholly falfe. There are, indeed, feveral fmall houfes near the church-yard; and, as there is an open footway through it, it is difiicult to prevent the " young generation" from fometimes ftraying out of the path. They will fometimes play about in the church-yard; and fometimes an unlucky fione, or ball, from their hands, may break a quarry or two of glafs, in the windows of the church; and the utmoft vigilance of the curate and the parifh-clerk, both whose houses adjoin the church-yard, cannot prevent thofe irregularities; yet, upon the whole, there is not a neater church-yard, perhaps, in the county of Kent. I must therefore beg, Mr. Urban, that you will contradict this part of the " particular defcription," from authority. Whilft my hand is in, I would refer B. J. in p. 333, to "Oldys's Life of T. Paine,' publifhed by Stockdale, in 1792; a piece of biography which went to the eleventh edition becaufe, probably, it was known to be authentic. GILBERT BUCHANAN. Mr. URBAN, Baldock, June 9. A cular defcription of Northfleet WELL knowing that your publi church," p. 305, fent ine the Number; and, on the first glance at that " particular defcription," I perceived that it was written by fomebody who knew not what he was writing about. The praife which the writer has be cation is ever open to receive fuch remarks and obfervations as may tend to an invetligation in any of the branches of fcience, emboldens ine to offer fome hints on the generation of those most noble and induftrious infects, the |