8vo. 1794.-An Attempt to describe Hafòd, an ancient seat belonging to Colonel Johnes, Esq. Member for the County of Radnor, 8vo. 1796.-Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, and the System that guided the Ancient Artists in composing their Figures and Groupes, with twenty-four designs of Classical Subjects on the principles recommended in the Essay, 4to. 1796. (Half the designs engraved by the author, the other half by Mr Blake.)—A Letter to Henry Griffiths, Esq. of Beaumont-Lodge, (published gratis) 1797.-The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar, an African Tale, containing various Anecdotes of the Sophians, hitherto unknown to mankind in general (published gratis) 12mo. 1798.--A Sermon for a General Fast, suitable to Christians of all denominations, calculated to revive the Genuine Spirit of our Holy Religion, by a Layman, 1804.-Original Tales, including a 2d ed. of The Captive (altered, but not terminated as the author intended) 2 vols. 12mo. 1810.-Bromley Hill, the seat of the Right Hon. Charles Long, M. P. a Sketch, 8vo. 1811.--Mr. Cumberland is also the avowed writer of numerous fugitive pieces in Nicholson's Journal, the Monthly Magazine, &c. &c.

CURNICK, THOMAS, Accomptant.

Vortigern and Rowena, a Poem, in three cantos.-An Account of Poets of Bristol, antecedent to the year 1396, written by Johnne a Danburie, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Bristol, in the 14th and 15th centuries.-Jehoshaphat, with other Poems, fc. 8vo.

[To be continued.]

LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN BRISTOL,

For the Quarter ending with March 1816.

Bibliographical Memoranda, in illustration of Early English Literature. 4to, boards, £2 9 0.

The Messiah, a Poem. By Joseph Cottle. Royal 8vo, £1 1 0. A Treatise on the Medicinal Leech; including its Medical and Natural History, with a Description of its Anatomical Structure; Also, Remarks upon the Diseases, Preservation, and Management of Leeches. By James Rawlins Johnson, M. D. F.L. S. Member Extraordinary of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh. Illustrated with Two Engravings. 8vo. 8s.

A Compendium of Medical Practice, illustrated by interesting and instructive Cases, and by Practical, Pathological, and Physiological Observations. By James Bedingfield, Surgeon, late Apothecary to the Bristol Infirmary. Royal 8vo, 15s.

War contemplated by Religion, in a Sermon, of which the Substance was delivered at St. Wèrburgh's Church, Bristol, on Thursday, January 18, 1816, being the Day of Thanksgiving for a General Peace. By Thomas Grinfield, M. A. late of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo, Is. 6d.

Memoir of Mrs. Harriet Newell, one of the first American Missionaries to India, who died at the Isle of France, Nov. 30, 1812, aged 19 years. By Leonard Woods, D. D. 8vo, 4s. 6d.

The Trinitarian Catechised, and Allowed to Answer for Himself. Pot 8vo, 3d.

A Letter from an Old Unitarian to a Young Calvinist. 12mo, 6d. An Account of a Bible-formed Society of Unitarian Christians, without the aid of either other Books or Missionaries, at New Church, Rossendale, Lancashire. Extracted from The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature. 12mo, 6d.

The Hundred-Weight Fraction-Book. By John Gayner, lately a Warehouse-Clerk to the Coalbrook-Dale Company. Fcap sexto, bds. 5s.

The Remains of William Reed, late of Thornbury; including Rambles in Ireland, with other compositions in prose, his Correspondence and Poetical Productions. To which is prefixed, ▲ Memoir of his Life. By the Rev. John Evans, Author of The Ponderer. Demy 8vo, 10s. 6d. Royal 8vo. with an Emblematical Engraving by Silvester, 15s.

LITERARY NOTICES.

A work in four volumes octavo, under the title of Bibliophilia, embellished with facsimile wood-cuts, is in the course of preparation for the press, by a native of Bristol; and the first fasciculus is to appear in the early part of the next year. Particular attention will be paid to an ample specification of some of the rarest early printed books in our language; and a limited number of copies only are to be thrown off.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, gentleman of the privy chamber to Charles I. are also to issue from a Bristol press.

The Author of First Lessons in Latin' is printing a Series of Questions for Examination in the Eton Latin Grammar.

Part XII. of the History of Bristol, which will complete the work, is nearly ready for publication.

The Third Volume of Village Conversations or the Vicar's FireSide, (the first volume of which was published in May 1815) is in great progress towards completion.

Mr. Thomas Howell, of Clare-Street, will shortly publish a comprehensive Musical Treatise, in three parts, under the title of Practical Instructions for the Piano-Forte.'

Mr. Rootsey has issued proposals for Botanical and Chemical Lectures; the subscriptions to be annual or for a single course.

Reprints.

The Case of Christopher Lovel, of Bristol, who was touched by the Pretender, for the King's Evil.

[From the General Evening-Post, Jan. 5th to Jan. 7th, 1747-8.] To the PRINTER.

SIR,

HAVING just seen Mr. Carte's History of England, I found the following remarkable Story which he has laboriously introduced by way of Note to illustrate his history a thousand years preceding. Speaking of the Unction of Kings, and the Gift of healing the Scrophulous Humour, called the King's Evil, exercised by some European Princes, anointed at their Coronations, and succeeding lineally to their Crowns by Proximity of Blood, he says, "But whatever is to be said in favour of its being appropriated to the eldest descendant of the first branch of the royal line of the kings of France, England, &c. I have myself seen a very remarkable instance of such a cure, which could not possibly be ascribed to the regal unction.

'One Christopher Lovel, born at Wells, in Somersetshire, but when he grew up, residing in the City of Bristol, where he got his living by labour, was extremely afflicted for many years with that distemper, and such a flow of the scrophulous humour, that though it found a vent by five running sores about his breast, neck and arms, there

was such a tumour on one side of his neck, as left no hollow between his cheek and the upper part of his left shoulder, and forced him to keep his head always awry. The young man was reduced, by the virulence of the humour, to the lowest state of weakness; appeared a miserable object in the eyes of all the inhabitants of that populous city; and having for many years tried all the remedies which the art of physick could administer, without receiving any benefit, resolved at last to go abroad to be touched. He had an uncle in the place, who was an old seaman, and carried him from Bristol at the end of August A.D. 1716,* along with him to Corke in Ireland; where he put him on board a ship that was bound to St. Martin's, in the Isle of Rée. From thence Christopher made his way first to Paris, and then to the place where he was touched in the beginning of November following, by the eldest lineal descendant of á race of kings, who had indeed for a long succession of ages cured that distemper by the royal touch: but this descendant, and next heir of their blood, had not, at least at that time been either crowned or anointed. The usual effect however followed, from the moment that the man was touched and invested with the narrow riband, to which a small piece of silver was pendant, according to the rites prescribed in the office appointed by the church for that solemnity, the humour dispersed insensibly, his sores healed up, and he recovered strength daily, till he arrived in perfect health, in the beginning of January following, at Bristol, having spent only four months and some few days in his voyage. There it was, and in the week pre

* And not 1746, as before printed. We have referred to the History, and corrected the quotation throughout. In every other respect, we shall always scrupulously adhere to our original.—Ed.

eeding St. Paul's fair, that I saw the man in his recovered vigour of body, without any remains of his complaint, but what were to be seen in the red scars then left upon the five places where the sharp humour had found a vent; but which were otherwise intirely healed, and as sound as any other part of his body. Dr. Lane an eminent physician in the place, whom I visited on my arrival, told me of this cure, as the most wonderful thing that had ever happened, and pressed me as well to see the man upon whom it was performed, as to talk about his case with Mr. Samuel Pye, a very skilful surgeon, and I believe still living in that city, who had tried in vain for three years together to cure the man by physical remedies. I had an opportunity of doing both, and Mr. Pye, after dining together, carrying me to the man, I examined and informed myself fully of all particulars, relating as well to his illness, as his cure, and found upon the whole, that if it is not to be deemed miraculous, it at least deserved the character given of it by Dr. Lane, of being one of the most wonderful events that has ever happened. There are abundance of instances of the cure of the King's Evil by the touch of our English princes in former times, mentioned by Tucker, in his book on that subject and it is observable, that the author was himself an infidel on that head, till convinced of his mistake by the late learned Mr. Anstis, garter king of arms, who furnished him with those proofs out of the English records, which attest the facts, and are printed in that treatise. But I am apt to think there never was an instance in which the distemper had prevailed to an higher degree, or the surprising cure of it was known to such infinite multitudes of People, as in the case of Christopher Lovel.'