vention of such as are hung in the towers, or steeples of christian churches, did not occur till the latter end of the fourth, or beginning of the fifth century; when they were introduced by Paulinus, bishop of Nola. The Jews certainly employed bells, since they are spoken of in the Scriptures; and the mention of them by Thucydides, Diodorus Siculus, Suidas, Aristophanes, and other ancient writers, proves that they were used in Greece; while Plautus, Ovid, Tibullus, Statius, and a variety of Latin authors, speak of Bells as in use among the Romans. But these bells of the ancients were all made for the hand; or were of a size to be affixed to other musical instruments, like those which were occasionally append ed to the drum. Whether, when detached from other instruments, they were used on general occasions, or only in particular ceremonies, or as signals, is not known; nor have we any clue by which to guess whether they were tuned in concordance with any scale, or whether they were unisons to each other, or not formed to any particular pitch, but merely used as sonorous auxiliaries to other instruments, without any regard to their agreement of tone either with one another, or with the instruments they accompanied.

RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES. In the

trial of Mrs. Turner, one of the accomplices in the murder of the unfortunate Sir Thomas Overbury in King James's reign, Sir Edward Coke, then Lord Chief Juctice, told the criminal that she was guilty of the seven deadly sins, which he thus enume rated; that she was a wh-e, a b-d, a sorceror, a witch, a papist, a felon, and a murderer. And what is more surprising, Bacon, then AttorneyGeneral, took occasion to observe that "poisoning was a Popish trick ;" though the crime in itself were not sufficiently odious without being represented as a branch of Popery. Such were the bigotted prejudices prevalent in that age.

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The wit's Nunchion.

THE celebrated Dr. M. forty years ago stood at the head of the Bath Physicians; an eminence, to which his skill and success seemed to entitle him. His appetite for FEES, however, was considered as rather too inordinate; an unfortunate propensity, which, in two or three instances, rendered him the subject of amusing jokes. Colonel L-, one of his most constant patients, came regularly to Bath, at the commencement of the season, for the advantage of its waters, in a gouty disorder, with which he had been afflicted for years. Dr. M. calling on his patient one morning, found him in a situation of great anguish and infirmity; with knees, feet, and hands, tortured with gout, and involved in swathes of flannel. The Doctor, after having administered all the comfort in his power, by relating the news of the day, and writing his customary repetitum, got up to take his leave and his fee. You see, my dear Doctor," said the patient, “what an impotent wretch I am; not able to recompense your good services, by geting at my purse: do me the favour to put your hand into my breeches pocket, and take out a guinea: they are hanging on the chair, by the side of the bed." The Doctor, rather shocked at the idea of helping himself, attempted a few words of unwilling excuse. don't feel the least delicacy on the occasion," said the patient : 66 you know, my dear friend, it will not be the first time you have PICKED MY POCKET." In a short time after this incident, disease triumphed over the efficacy of the Bath waters, and the skill of the physician, and poor Colonel L. was reduced to the last extremity. The Doctor, during" the dread suspense 'twixt life and death," continued regularly PAYING and RECEIVING, viz. his visit and his fee, and reporting daily to the lamenting or expecting heir, " a-going, a-going, and a-going." Symptoms of speedy dissolution now appeared; and having seen the patient in the morning, the

"Oh!

THE CHATTERING PUPPY, OR D. C. P.-A gentleman, at a coffeehouse not a hundred miles from Charing Cross, the other day, took up a newspaper, in which was inserted the names of those persons who had taken out certificates under the GAME ACT, and observing under the name of the deputy clerk of the peace, the letters D. C. P. was very inquisitive among the company to know their meaning. Why," says an old clergyman, the present instance they stand for damn'd chattering puppy;" the gentle man left the house without saying a word.

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THE QUERIST-No. I. . [We intend occasionally to devote a few of our columns to the insertion of Queries upon subjects of general interest, and to lay open our pages to the replies of such Correspondents as may think fit to exercise their ingeTo expa nuity in replying thereto.

tiate upon the utility as well as entertainment which must result from such an arrangement would be insulting to the common sense of our readers, as it is obvious that no better mode could be adopted of arousing the curiosity of the indifferent, and urging those who already desire to possess knowledge, to re-double their exertions to attain it.

[We have only to add, that the nature of this article will differ in toto from that of our enigmatical compilation, THE SPHINX, as the subjoined Queries will sufficiently shew. We shall readily insert any Questions our Correspondents may wish to propound, which may not appear frivolous or devoid of general interest.]

1. As the UNICORN is generally accounted a fabulous animal, how comes it to form one of the supporters of the Arms of England?

No. 62.

VOL. II.

THE term Hieroglyphick is formed from two Greek words, signifying to carve or engrave any thing of a sacred nature; because the ancient Egyptians, with whom hieroglyphicks originated, were accustomed to couch their principles of philosophy, divinity, and policy, under certain mystical characters, or portraitures of various sorts of creatures: whence the word is now taken for any symbol, emblem, or mystical figure.

In our 13th Number, we gave an account, with descriptive engravings, of some extremely curious Roman hieroglyphicks; and we now present our readers with a representation of and Egyptian one, still more ancient, and probably one of the first specimens of the class. It is copied from a print in George Sandys' "Travels through Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, &c. 1615;" where we also meet with some remarks upon the genius and learning of the Egyptians, and

an attempt to expound the meaning of the hieroglyphick in question, after the following fashion :--

"The Egyptians first inuented Arithmeticke, Musicke, and Geometry; and by reason of the perpetuall serenitie of the aire, found out the course of the Sunne and the starres, their constellations, risings, aspects, and influences; diuiding by the same, the yeere into moneths, and grounding their diuinations vpon their, hidden properties. Moreouer from the Egyptians, Orpheus, Musæus, and Homer, haue fetcht their hymnes and fables of the Gods: Pythagoras, Eu doxus, and Democritus, their Philosophie: Lycurgus, Solon, and Plato, the forme of their gouernments: by which they all in their seueralt kinds haue eternized their memories. Their letters were inuented by Mercury, who writ from the right hand to the left, as do all the Africans. But, in holy things especially, they express their