J'ai lu avec beaucoup d'intérêt dans le dernier No. du Gentleman's Magazine un article, traduit de l'Hindoustani, sur les Faquirs Indiens. En le comparant avec le texte je me suis assuré que la traduction est fidèle, si ce n'est en deux endroits que je prends la liberté de vous indiquer ici. Je me flatte que le savant auteur de cet article ne considérera pas ma lettre comme une critique importune, mais au contraire comme un témoignage de l'attention que son travail a excité.

P. 29, on lit," They (the Joghees) heal diseases by a word, and instantly know the mind of a stranger, whether friend or foe, though a Joghee is a friend to every

one.

Il fallait traduire, "They heal the sick, being about to die, by a word, and instantly know the mind of a stranger. Their very practice is carelessness and indifference for friends. It is true to say that the Joghee is the friend of no one (this last sentence is a proverb)."

Et p. 30. "They (the Jutees) say that the body of man is of four elements, and, at its dissolution, each will mingle with its origin. They will not on any account give people fire or water, which all other sects of Hindoos think it their duty to do, though they hold it to be a good act to throw oil on an extinct lamp."

Il fallait traduire, "They say that the body of man is of four elements, and, at its dissolution, each will mingle with its origin. Then punishment on what and for what would it be? According to that opinion, they say that it is not proper to give to corpses fire or water, which in the opinion of the Hindoos it is duty to do. They say, of what utility is it to throw oil on an extinct lamp?"

J'ai l'honneur d'être,
Monsieur, &c.

GARCIN DE TASSY,
Membre de l'Institut de France,
Professeur d'Hindoustani, &c.

A Mons. Urban.

Mr. BRUCE, of York, has sent us the following note addressed to the Rev. Marmaduke Prickett, (now, we regret to have to tell him,) no longer living to acknowledge the intimation :

"Rev. Sir, You published in 1835 a History of the priory church of Bridlington, and at page 66, you say that a Richard Tyson was the founder of Guisbrough Priory. Now, according to Brompton, Leland, Camden, Dugdale, Tanner, Burton, Graves, &c. &c. it was founded by Robert de Brus (whom I now represent). Brompton's words are as follows:"Eodem anno (1129) fundata est domus de Gyseburna in Cleveland per Robertum de Brus, de consensu et confirmatione Pape et Thurstini Eboracensis archiepiscopi, ipsius etiam regis Henrici." There are also copies of the original foundation charters, the charter of Peter de Brus, Robert son of William de Brus, and William King of Scotland, and also of Richard Kellow, bishop of Durham; but I have not been able to find any relating to your founder. I am, Sir, yours, &c.

"WILLIAM DOWNING BRUCE."

A NEW SUBSCRIBER at Edinburgh,(and we hope our New Subscribers are as numerous as the Old, though not such frequent Correspondents,) supplies an answer to the question in p. 114, Where the line

'When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war,'

is to be found?" He will find it in the now almost obsolete tragedy of Alexander the Great. It is in the banquet scene of the fourth act, where Clytus taunts the young Conqueror with the superior prowess of his father Philip the line is, correctly, "When Greeks join'd Greeks, then was the tug of war."

H. remarks that Mr. Wodderspoon's error respecting the Portrait of Judge Clench (noticed in p. 181) that it was painted by Holbein, probably arose from the very pleasing engraving of that portrait, etched by Hollar in 1664, which is inserted in the Chronica Series attached to Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales. The Painter's name does not appear.

We are obliged to defer to another month several welcome communications, particularly F.R.A. on Dr. Dove and his horse Nobbs; the Vindication of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, by JOHANNENSIS; those of Mr. C. H. COOPER and M. on the use of Maces, &c. &c. We shall not have room for the letters of B. C. D.