of a leakage of linseed-oil among hemp, the vessel was burnt in the Bay of Rosas. The crew escaped on the coast of Spain; from whence Mr. Rich, with the assistance of a friendly Quaker, of Bristol, proceeded to the island of Malta; where he joined Mr. Lock, who had travelled overland. At this place, Mr. Lock died of the yellow fever; in consequence of which, Mr. Rich employed himself, with permission of the Company, in travelling through parts of Turkey, the Greek Islands, Syria, and Palestine, for the purpose of perfecting himself in the various dialects of those countries. During his voyage to Constantinople, a vessel was observed bearing towards that in which he had embarked, and was supposed to be an Algerine corsair. Resistance was therefore determined upon; but on her nearer approach, she proved to be a Turkish merchantman. Mr. Rich and some others going on board, one of the Turks, who was richly dressed, looked stedfastly for some time at Mr. Rich, which excited his particular attention; when the Turk accosted him, saying, 'Sir, I know you.' And I,' replied Mr. Rich, have seen you before.' It was the man whom he had assisted when in distress, at Bristol.

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Mr. Rich proceeded to Bombay by the Gulph of Persia, and reached India about the year 1807. In six or seven months after his arrival, he was appointed to his present situation. About the same time he married the eldest daughter of Sir James Mackintosh. During the General Congress, in 1814, Mr. Rich and his wife, having travelled over land, arrived at Vienna; where he communicated to a friend, who is the conductor of a journal in that city appropriated to oriental literature, a Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon, which has been lately republished in London. Of this work the Edinburgh

Reviewers say, "It is a modest and perspicuous account of what he saw during a short visit, in several passages not without descriptive merit, and creditably distinguished by abstinence from fruitless enquiry and rash conjecture, and in which the classical and oriental learning of the author is as much proved, by the careful exclusion of false pretensions and impertinent display, as by the natural fruits of solid knowledge. He ensures the confidence of the judicious part of the public in his future statements, by the cautious and scrupulous fairness, with which he never fails to lay. open the sources and the limits of his information. With his respectable talents and attainments, and with the contempt for imposture, and repugnance to ostentation, which characterize this Essay, he has only to proceed with industry in the course which he has honourably begun. His residence, though with few enjoyments for the individual, is fortunately situated for the gratification of public curiosity. He is surrounded by objects of physical, historical, and literary interest. The first is undoubtedly the complete examination and description of the remains of Babylon."-Ed. Rev. for October 1815, p. 439.

Mr. Rich himself observes of his work, "I have thus given a faithful account of my observations at Babylon, and offer it merely as a prelude to further researches, which repeated visits to the same spot may enable me to make." And in another part of the Essay he says, "I project other excursions to the same spot, to confirm and prosecute my researches; and preparatory to them, I solicit the communications and queries of the learned, for my guidance and information.”

The following announcement recently appeared in the

Moniteur. "Letters from Constantinople, dated Nov. 2, 1815, inform us, that Mr. Rich, the author of the interesting Description of the Ruins of Babylon, near Hella, is returned to Bagdad, where he is about to engage in new investigations."

In 1809, some notices respecting Mr. Rich were communicated by Edward Parry, Esq. late Chairman of the East-India Company, to the Bishop of St. David's, and published by his Lordship in the first part of his 'Motives to the study of Hebrew.' The foregoing particulars have been chiefly collected from some of Mr. Rich's friends in this city. T.

ANNALS OF BRISTOL.

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1570. THIS year was great variance about choosing the Burgesses of this city, so that the Sheriffs were at great debate a long time after. Also William Tucker,

Mayor, at his own charge, purchased a Market to be kept in St. Thomas-street every week, upon Thursday, And Michael Sondley with the rest of the Vestry of St. Thomas Church, built the Market-place alongst the breadth of the Church and Churchyard, for the said Market to be kept; which was this year proclaimed at the High Cross. Also the Meal-Market and the two houses on both sides thereof were built, where the two houses and land of St. Thomas was, which was granted and given to the said Mayor, for the priviledge of St. Thomas Market.

1571. The Mayor kept a watch at Midsummer-night and St. Peter's night.

1572. This year the Mayor turned the watch into a generall muster, both upon Midsummer and St. Peter's day; and the Burgesses mustered with all kind of warliek furniture and weapons, every Craft and Company having their ensigne and drumm.

1573. This year on the 13th of August the Pelican in St. Thomas-street was blown up, and ten men were burnt therewith: five of them died presently, and the other five within eight days after. Also the High Cross

And the 14th August

was new guilded and painted. 1574, the Queen Elizabeth came in her progress to the city of Bristol, where she was very honourably entertained and received by the Mayor and his bretheren with their Companys and Citizens in their colours, and accompanied her Majestie (the Mayor carrying the sword before her bareheaded) unto her lodging, being at the house of John Young on St. Austin's back. While she remained here, many pleasant shews and sights upon land and water was by the Citizens made to her; which much delighted her Majestie; and at her departure she knighted John Young. Also this year David Harris and John Jones were put out of their offices of Aldermen, and John Stones and John Chester were chosen in their places. This year also the Mayor and the two Sheriffes fell at variance, so that the Mayor commanded the Sheriffes to be carried to prison. William Bird came to prison; but Edward Porter went home to his own house, and sent the Mayor word that the Prison was his, and that the Mayor had nothing to do with it.

1574. This year the plague was very hott in Bristol, whereof dyed 1900 and upwards; and Mr. Northbrook,

preacher both in word and deed, did very much good in teaching publicly and privately from house to house; and in this plague died John Northall, pewterer, John Stone, brewer, John Cutt and William Carr, merchants, all which have been Mayors of Bristol.

1575. This year the plague ceased in Bristol.

1576. This year, at St. James's Fair, certaine mariners stole out of Crogan Pill an Irish Barque, and intended to robb the Barques that came from the Fair; but they left the aforesaid Barque in Wales, and four of them were taken and brought to Bristol; and upon the 25th of September following, 1577, they were arraigned and condemned at the Sessions; but one of them was saved, and the other three were hanged upon a Gibbett set up in Cannons Marsh, over against Gibb Taylor, at the point near to the River, that the tide might come over them.

1577. This year the Queen's ship called the Ayde, alias Anne, of the burthen of two hundred tonns, came into Kingroad, loaden with gold oar from Cathay; and they brought with them a man of that country, called Cally Chough, with his wife and child, who gave suck casting her breasts over her shoulders. And the 9th of October the man rowed up and down the River at the Back, it being full sea, in a boat made of beasts' skins, in forme like unto a long 'barge or trowe, but sharpe at both ends, having but one round place for him to sett in; and as he rowed up and down the river, he killed a couple of ducks with his dart; and at the Marsh he brought the boat out of the water upon his back. They could eat nothing but raw flesh; and within one month after they all three dyed. Also this year three houses at the Tower of the Key were burnt down to the ground.