'By the WinchesterQuarter of 8 Bushels, and of OATMEAL per Boll of 140lbs, Averdupois, from the Returns received in the Week ended March 14, 1807.

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AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

VERY hand in the country busied in getting in the Lent corn, which will be much forwarded by the late dry weather, a continuance of which is much to be desired for the strong and wet lands. Bean-setting is generally finished, and most of the pease got in, but much of the early pea-grounds have been ploughed up, the plants having been destroyed by the badness of the weather. The season will be on the whole a late one, but the seed has been generally well got in. The quantity of spring wheat is said t exceed the sowing of any former year; the same may be averred with certainty of the autumnal sowing; and of wheat in hand there is no want, either in town or country. All the cattle crops have continued in the finest state of preservation, and the country has been supplied with a vast breadth of them. Among these, the thousand-headed cabbage, from the South of France (chour ò mille tetes), was experimented last year on a considerable scale in several counties, and has succeeded beyond expectation, rivalling in goodness, quantity, and hardiness, the best yellow rutabage. Clover seed was an indifferent crop last year, but most other seeds good; and the seedsman's crops, mustard, coriander, rape, &c. it is supposed will be extensive the present season.- -Considerable losses of sheep and lambs have been suffered, during the late snows, in the feus, in Romney Marsh, and in the North; but happily the fall of lambs is, this Spring, very considerable and prosperous, especially to the Westward and in Wales, where the breeding system is on the alert, and increasing yearly. Cows are rather a falling article. Lean stock generally dear, and not so easily come at as the articles for the butcher. Good horses worth almost any price which can be demanded.-Smithfield Markets very large, but generally cleared. Eeef, 4s. 5s 4d. to 5s. 6d-mutton, 4s to 5s.-veal, 5s. to 7s-pork, 4s. 6d. to 7s-house-lamb, 10s. to 15s. per quarter-town bacon, 6s. 4d. Irish, 5s. 2d. Middlesex, March 25.

BILL of MORTALITY, from FEB. 25, to MARCH 24, 1807.

For an Explanation of this Journal, see February 1804, page 211

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FORTUNE, STOCK-BROKER, No. 19, Cornhill..

UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.

No XLI-VOL. VII.]

DR. PARR.

For APRIL, 1807.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

[NEW SERIES.

searches by ithich, modern times

IN all ages and nations the com- have so much enlarged the bounds of

plaint has been repeated, that medical science. law has its men of the greatest reputation for ta- particular methods, in which your lents have seldom been rewarded in time would be employed, if you their life-time, either by the comforts wished for success in Westminister of life or a general approbation of hall;, and the profession of arms, their labours. Envy, jealousy, and whether in the navy or army, requires malignity join together to depress active and mental pursuits, in which the worthy; and there is, besides, another cause which makes the sons of genius alltide continually to a wellknown passage,

the ingenuous mind would be engaged. Thus each profession presents some peculiar occupation, which is sufficient to engross the greater part of your "Ploravere stus non respondisse favorem, time, and the more you take from "Quæsitum meritis." that titue the less proficient will you that is, patronage and desert seldom be in those qualities which entitle go together. The investigation of you to meritorious patronage. this cause would not be unworthy of The other road to patronage is much a legislative assembly, and particularly smoother. Whilst one man is conone so constituted as that under suming the midnight oil in his stu which it is our destiny to live. dies, the other is engaged in the plea

Two ways present themselves of sures of the metropolis. Whilst one obtaining patronage. The one is by is daring the dangers of the sea, or diligent attention and study, to make cutting his way through a host of yourself master of the profession enemies, another is judiciously postwhich you have chosen. Thus, if ing himself in the antichamber of a divinity is the line of life in which great man, or sedulously ingratiating your own choice or that of your pa- himself with the women and childreйi rents has placed you, then you would or upper servants of an illustrious fa naturally apply yourself to the study mily. Whilst one is labouring to of the two learned languages, the make himself worthy of patronage, Hebrew and the Greek, because in the other is worming himself into the these languages are written the do- good opinion of those who have good cuments on which your profession is things to bestow. The consequence founded. You would cultivate the is, that the chances are always very English language, because in this lan- greatly in the favour of the unworthy guage you are to communicate the in- against the worthy candidate, and we struction you have received from the must ascribe it to a very fortunate study of the original documents. You concurrence of circumstances, if a few would apply to the best writers who inen in a century get into their right have trod the ground before you, and places. perfect yourself to the utmost of your It may be said, that a more usual power, in eloquence, in criticism, in and much easier mode of obtaining morality. Every study you would the good things of a state has been diligently peruse that threw light upon your profession, and which could assist you in your researches.

In the same manner, if physic had been your choice, the Greek and Latin languages would be your study, and you would add to them those reUNIVERSAL MAG. VOL, VII.

omitted; and to be born the firstcousin of a peer, the younger brother of a leading member of the house of commons, or the son of a prime-minister's pimp or parasite, is the readiest path to preferment. This is undeni ably true; but the question before us 2 Q

is on the mode of obtaining patronage of birth; his father was in that list of by the exertions of an individual. All shopkeepers who frequently wish to the world knows that men of birth sink the name of shopkeeper, and are first to he provided for, and it is aspire to the rank which is vulgarly only what the state cannot give to supposed to belong to professional them, from the necessity of having science. But, in this case, the know. some duties performed, that can pos- ledge of the son settles the contro sibly fall to the share of those who are versy, and from his own Greek we entitled by their merits or their syco- are enabled to establish the nature of phancy to the good things of the state. his father's occupations. He was a The above observations do not be- chirurgeon or surgeon and an apothe long to this or that state, but are cary. As a chirurgeon he employed common to all. Our happy constitu- his hands with certain mechanical in tion does not guard against this abuse struments, in operations on the hu more than that of an absolute despot- man frame; but, as shaving has been ism; nay, it may be doubted whether separated in our country from this merit is not more likely to meet with business, he never carried about with its reward under an absolute despot him for public services, as practitioners ism than with us. The dispensers of of surgery do in other countries, the rewards under an absolute govern- razor and strap. As we have ourment have fewer ties upon them than selves have been shaved by surgeons with us; and, if the suitors are nu- in Germany, we can bear testimony merous in both cases, the mode of to this being part of their handy application is different. Is an excise- works. The surgical operations on man's place vacant? the member for the beard have been very wisely sepa the town must be consulted. Is rated in our country from the other a bishopric to be disposed? my lord operations on the human frame; and Dash's brother cannot be refused. I our surgeons are handy workmen have not applied, (says a noble lord to distinguished by their skill in most the prime-minister) for a long time, difficult cases. and I must have such a sinecure! The minister shakes his head. His lordship persists; and on parting reminds him of a question to be agitated on the morrow in the lower house, at which he has particularly desired his nine members to be present.

The father of Dr. Parr was also an apothecary, or keeper of a shop; fat this is the real meaning of the word, which is derived from apotheke, the Greek word for a shop. In our country we apply the term apothecary only to those shopkeepers who keep It is in vain that the satirist inveighs medicinal drugs in their shops: but, against this abuse of power, and that the very same Greek word, which private life looks up with astonish- gave us the name of apothecary, has ment and indignation at the conduct given to the French the name of bouof the great. The secret has not yet tiquier or shopkeeper in general. been discovered, which shall compel Thus, as is common with them, they the dispensers of the public rewards struck off the a in apotheke, and the to a due discharge of their office; word became potheke. The letter p which shall oblige them to look out being of the same order with the letfor merit, and to patronise only the ter b was changed into b, and the deserving; which, in a forcible man- word becomes botheke. But the ner, shall make them know that they French, as we all know, cannot pro are acting traitorously against their nounce our th, or the Greek theta, country, if they employ their power hence they transformed the word to confer only upon their own connec- into boteke, vulgarly spelt boutique, tions those offices which ought to be their name for shop, whence came bestowed on the man who would the boutiquier their name for shopmost faithfully discharge the duties keeper; and they think it a fine piece belonging to their posts. How far these observations extend to the subject of our memoir will be seen in the sequel.

Dr. Parr is not a man, as it is called,

of raillery to call us a nation bouti quiere, or a nation of shopkeepers. We, however, know that an honest and industrious shopkeeper, who ob tains his livelihood by increasing the