"WITH kindred dust, beneath this death stone blend,
The ashes of a patron and a friend;

Thy friend, thy patron, LEAMINGTON, whose zeal
Recording time, and truth shall long reveal ;
Lowly as is thy birth, unknown to fame,

But thy fair youth his latest age proclaim;

Thy copious fountains, sparkling high with health,
Thy growing greatness, and thy future wealth,
Thy proudest villas, and each cot's recess,
Bid thee the grave of humble SATCHWELL bless.
His the clear head in Nature's volumes taught,
And his the wisdom sage experience bought ;
His the strong powers of body and of soul;
And his the honest heart to crown the whole.
READER, who'er thou art, whom sickness brings,
Or more consuming sorrow, to these springs,
Or, if gay pleasure lure thee to the scene,
Where nature spreads the charm of loveliest green,
Thou, too, should'st hail the unassuming tomb
Of him who TOLD where health and beauty bloom:
Of him, whose lengthened life improving ran,
A blameless, useful, venerable man!

S. J. PRATT."

This inscription, the grammer of which is not the most correct, is singularly defective, in not recording Satchwell's foundation of Leamington Spa. Charity, one of the best, if not the most prominent, acts of his useful life. The monument to Abbots is not so emblazoned as that of his co-operator, Satchwell, though its inscription is striking enough.

BEHOLD

THE TOMB OF

WILLIAM ABBOTS!

WHO DIED THE 1ST MARCH, 1805,

AGED SIXTY-NINE;

FIRST FOUNDER OF THE CELEBRATED

SPA WATER BATHS AT THIS PLACE,
IN 1786.

HE DEVOTED HIS WHOLE TIME AND FORTUNE

TO ACCOMODATE THE PUBLIC,

AND

LIVED TO SEE HIS BENEVOLENT WORKS,

MERIT THE APPROBATION

OF

THE MOST EMINENT

PHYSICIANS

Some lines in poetry follow this, but not of sufficient merit to deserve preservation.

Subscriptions have lately been entered into, for either adding another wing to this structure, or building an entire new church; we heartily recommend the latter, increasing as Leamington is, two churches will not be found too many; and it is impossible the present building can ever be sufficiently enlarged, without entirely rebuilding it, to accomodate all the inhabitants and visitors of Leamington; and we, for our own parts, would not give any one an excuse for abstaining from the per

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formance of their religious duties. A neat organ has lately been added to this church, at which Mr. H. T. Elliston gratuitously officiates as organist, and by charitably attending to the vocal tuition of the children belonging to the Leamington Sunday School, has completely put to the rout, the eternal clarionet, fiddle, and leathern lungs of some half dozen of remorseless bald pated choristers that so long splitted the ears of the groundlings,' by murdering Sternhold and Hopkins, and inflicting on the congregation all the tortures of Psalmody. As a spot of ground in the New Town, on the right of the back road to Warwick, at no great distance from Upper Union Street, has been marked out as the scite of the intended new church; we hope the idea of only enlarging the old one will be abandoned.

UN-PROFESSIONAL DISSERTATION

ON THE

LEAMINGTON WATERS.

Thee the glad merchant hails, whom choice or fate
Leads to some distant home, where Sirius reigns,
And the blood boils with many a fell disease
Which Albion knows not.

Scar'd at thy presence start the train of death,
And hide their whips and scorpions. Thee confus'd
Slow Febris creeps
from; thee the meagre fiend
Cousumption flies, and checks his rattling coughs..
But chief the dread disease, whose watery power,
Curb'd by thy wave restringent, knows its bounds,
And feels a firmer barrier.

W. WHITEHEAD.

Your books, and your business, and every thing else,
Lay aside for awhile, and come down to the Wells.

BYROM.

As we have not yet received our diploma from Warwick Lane, nor been regularly initiated into the Pharmacopoeia Medicina Londinensis et Edinburgensis; and are, thank Heaven! totally unacquainted with the greater portion of the Materia Medica, we can only give a plain, straight-forward English account of the Aqua Mineralis of Leamington, and their properties, such as we under stand ourselves, and hope our readers will also.

To those who wish to plunge into all the chemical subtleties, critical niceties, and hair-breadth distinctions of oxyds, sulphats, muriats, and carbonats, we recommend the various professional treatises, published on the subject, in which they may sublimate themselves to their heart's content; as we must profess we have not thrust our legs far enough into the bas bleu, to be able to gratify them, though we have not spared what research we thought necessary. One of the cleverest writers we have seen, on the nature and virtues of mineral waters, says, "I believe I may venture to lay it down as a general rule, that there are few diseases, incident to the human body, which may not be palliated, or totally removed, by the judicious use of water, considered, according to the nature of the distemper, either as pure and elementary, or as saturated with principles of a medicinal quality." This we take for granted. Diogenes Laertius tells us, that Thales, the Milesian, and after him several other ancient philosophers, promulgated the doctrine, that water was omni seminaria, or the seminary of all created things; and many of the moderns have held the same opinion. We do not consider it necessary to trace the practice of bathing farther back, than the ancient Patriarchs; they considered it so vitally necessary, that they made it a part of their religious exercises, and, while prescribing lustrations for the