This curious document bears date from the school of Basingstoke, Nov. 1737. In March 1773, at the age of sixteen, he was admitted a Commoner at Trinity College, Oxford, and soon after elected a Scholar. At this college Mr. Warton continued, with trifling intervals, forty-seven years. In 1745, he published "The Pleasures of Melancholy." In 1749, in consequence of a foolish riot occasioned by some of the scholars, Mason, the Poet, produced a poem called the "Isis," reflecting upon the loyalty of the college, upon which Mr. Warton immediately wrote the "Triumph of Isis," a poem of some merit, and a severe commentary upon the other production. About this time, his talents being generally acknowledged, he became Poet Laureate, and in 1750 he took a Master's Degree, and in 1751 succeeded to a Fellowship. In 1754 he published his observations on the "Faerie Queene of Spencer." In 1757, upon the resignation of Mr Hawkins, of Pembroke College, he was elected Professor of Poetry, which he held according to the usual custom for ten years. He died, May 21, 1790. Basingstoke is one of the polling places for the northern division of the county. _Market_, Wednesday.--_Fairs_, Easter Tuesday, for cheese and cattle; Whit-Wednesday for pedlary; September 23, for cattle and hiring servants, Devonport. _Mail_ arrives 12.55 morning; departs 1.48 morning.--_Bankers_, Raggett and Co., draw on Masterman and Co.--_Inn_, Crown. [Sidenote: Royal manor.] [Sidenote: Aubrey Camp.] [Sidenote: Eminent men born here.] Map| Names of Places.|County. |Number of Miles From | +--+-----------------+--------+------------+----------+ 24|Basingthorpe pa|Lincoln |Corby 3|Grantham 8| 53|Basingwerk[A] vil|Flint |Holeywell 1|Flint 5| 10|Baslow chap|Derby |Middleton 3|Bakewell 5| +--+-----------------+--------+------------+----------+ |Dist.| Map| Names of Places.|Number of Miles From |Lond.|Population. +--+-----------------+---------------------+-----+----+ 24|Basingthorpe pa|Folingham 10| 105| 122| 53|Basingwerk[A] vil|Park Gate 7| 204| | 10|Baslow chap|Chesterfield 10| 158| 863| +--+-----------------+---------------------+----+-----+