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An action of Trover; an Endymion containing the speech which Mr. LEWIS ought to have delivered on retiring; Horace in London to Rowland Hill; Bad Taste; Magna Charta; and Notes on Athenæus, next month.

Mr. W. GEORGE recommending a Society of Poets, with convivial laws, is under consideration. G. M. in bed, has ugly dreams.

Domesticus on Politeness, and W. S.'s Sketch of Dresden, shall have an early insertion.

Reuben's "dialogue in Mr. Kemble's kitchen;" T. J.'s Anacreontic; Alcaus's Rosabella; and Rose Mary's sonnets, are received.

A constant reader wishes our poet, J. to publish his celebrated song, called "The Mail Coach." This is the reply we have obtained-" You may acquaint him that Mr. Palmer means to apply a second time to parliament for a remuneration for his mail-coach, at which time I mean to ask a reward for mine. This is a very cogent reasons for keeping the song to myself for the present." The improvement on J.'s Mail Coach is, that instead of breeding it destroys ennui, spleen, and vapours.

Z. Z. Q. is our "earnest well-wisher," and we are his wellwisher. He recommends us to avoid certain books which he terms vulgar, we on the contrary recommend a very vulgar book to his particuFar attention-Dilworth's Spelling Book" a bad principal”—“genious" -"has for blushing." Now hand in hand we will proceed to our refor. *mation.

Respons on the xwv Barinn is, he will see, forestalled, but he has our thanks.

The courage of Sir W. CURTIS is thus proved by C.-" Living well,” he says, "he cannot fear to die." The verses need correction.

J. S. S. will have fair play.

T. on Shakspeare; Mr. Adamson's Queries; Not a Dunstable man; Mr. Twist on History; and some remarks on Miss Edgeworth, as soon as possible.

Letters from Mr. Dibdin, Mr. T. Keys, City Library, and Mr. J. Dickson, Ivy-Lane, have been received.

S. Y. desires "a decisive answer." His poems have merit, but they are not sufficiently correct for the Mirror. Express'd and burst— awe and flow, he can have but one reason for calling rhymes-indolence.

Covent-Garden Theatre has again excluded many valuable articles.

Painted by Devis Engrav'd by Freeman.

John Sheldon Esq?

Late Professor of Anatomy, to the Royal Academy

Published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry. Nov1.1809.

MONTHLY MIRROR,

FOR

OCTOBER, 1809.

SKETCH OF THE LIFE

OF

JOHN SHELDON, ESQ.

(With a Portrait.)

This gentleman was born in Tottenham-Street, or TottenhamCourt-Road, as it was formerly called, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the year 1754. His father, who had been a surgeon in the British navy, resided there, and practised pharmacy and surgery with much success for many years. He gave his son John a good education. He was sent to a very respectable school at Richmond, and from thence became a resident pupil with Mr. Henry Watson, of Rathbone-Place, an excellent anatomist, who gave lectures on anatomy, and who was the original surgeon at the first institution of the Middlesex Hospital, but quitted it, and was elected surgeon to the Westminster Hospital.

Here Mr. Sheldon availed himself of an excellence which seldom occurs. Mr. André was the dissector of subjects for Mr. Watson; and perhaps André must be confessed to have been the most laborious, the neatest, and most intuitive man, that ever prosecuted that rare study. No one before or since ever excelled him in dissection, or in making preparations. It was to him that John Hunter owed all the refined part of his Museum, as for some time before, and after the death of Watson, he resided with Hunter. Mr. André died in the beginning of the year 1808, at the Earl of Egremont's at Petworth, and his lordship has, highly to his honour, erected a sumptuous monument to his memory in the new church-yard of that place.

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