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The family for many years had returned to the original mode of spelling their patronymic, to distinguish them from other families similarly called; and for this privilege a permission was obtained by sign manual in 1844. And if a correspondent change was made on the monuments, what has anyone in the world to do with it but the family?

In one case a mistaken date was inscribed, 17th for 26th March. This is made a charge and a crime by this miserable citizen critic, as if these mistakes were made purposely.

In two cases Dr. Lipscomb's monumental inscriptions give widow for wife, and Sept. for April. Had the STATIONER, who is so wonderfully correct, and turns all things to wrongs, gone or sent to Wraysbury, he would have found his improvements already on the monuments.

But his candid soul converts all this to vanity: and, no doubt, vanity finds endless occupation for ingenuity and invention. Suggests that a family ought to be proud of civic honours. Many thanks to the suggestive STATIONER; but if this family is not, what cares the world about it? It may have gained nothing by the position; but if he will be obtrusive, let him tell the next editor who is in want of matter another secret—for he uses this term in his disquisition—that Mr. Gyll, in 1789, refused to be created a Baronet, and that the patent was made out and was ready for execution. See the newspapers passim, 18th and 23rd April, 1789.