Letter from Barl Stanhope. '' "^ 35, 



considered that the duke of Cambridge ought to have a 

 separate and particular address on the subject ; and therefore 

 another pamphlet, containing a narrative of my original 

 disHke and subsequent recantation, will be (I am sure) in- 

 teresting to his royal highness and all the world." 



Finding by that letter that Dr. Callcott had already 

 ordered *^ the advertisement of piilUcatlon to he inserted in 

 all the papers for the 26th of Jime," 1 resolved to take the 

 trouble to correct that printed copy ; and, when I had cor- 

 rected it, I returned it to Dr. Callcott. I did this merely 

 out of good nature, and in order to prevent an imperfect 

 statement of 7ny temperament from being published, wheri. 

 it was in my power to make it more correct. Dr. Callcgtt 

 did himself send, by Mr. Fergusson, that corrected copy 

 of the '' Plain Statement,'' to Mr. McMillan the printer, 

 with directions from him (Dr. Callcott) to print the same. 

 He also sent, by the same person^ to the same printer, the 

 manuscript of his letter to the duke of Cumberland. 



These facts are a sufficient refutation of the idle reports 

 which have reached Mr. Farey upon this subject. 



As Mr. Farey has obliged me, nmch against my wish, to 

 take up my pen again on his account ; I must freely confess 

 that I can perceive no merit in his calculations. 



I have expressed the length of the wire which yields the 

 sound of the perfect qidnt G, in the correct, precise, and 

 plain language of two thirds of the length of the wire which 

 yields the sound of the key-note C. This docs not, how- 

 ever, satisfy Mr. Farey. He is not contented till he has 

 told us, that two thirds may be expressed by '6066666 ad 

 infinitiim. ^ 



He is not even content with this; for he introduces, 

 moreover, what he terms a '^ new iwtaiion ;'' and he ex- 

 presses ^^ the relation ivkich the note G hears to the funda- 

 mental note C, according to the Stanhope Temperament,'^ 

 as follows, namely, 



by 338 2 {ox schismas), 



+ 7 f (or lesser fractions) . 

 + 31m [ox the most miJiute). 



This he no doubt considers as greatly advancing the cause 



C 2 of 



