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cipal of Marischal College, Aberdeen, from which, however 
painful at first, Mr Tyrier might easily have foretold its fu- 
ture fortune in the literary world. Dr Campzeti had, some 
time previous to this, published his Translation of the Gospels, 
to which he had prefixed, in a preliminary dissertation, some 
very acute and ingenious observations, upon the principles of 
translation. Upon the publication of Mr Tytier’s anonymous 
work, he immediately procured it, and was so much struck with 
the coincidence of their views upon the subject, that he wrote to 
his printer Mr Creecu, to know who was the author; and 
while he acknowledged himself “ to have been flattered not a 
“ little to think, that he had in these points the concurrence in judg- 
“ ment of a writer so ingenious,’ he expressed at the same time 
some suspicion, that the author might have borrowed from his 
Dissertation, without acknowledging the obligation. Mr Crrecn, 
with great propriety, communicated the letter to Mr Tyter; 
and he instantly wrote to Dr Campsex, acknowledging himself 
to be the author, but assuring him, that the coincidence of sen- 
timent was purely accidental, and that the name of Dr Camp- 
BELL’s work had never reached him until his own had been 
composed. “ The coincidence of our general principles, (says 
“ Mr Tyrer), is indeed a thing flattering to myself; but I can- 
“ not consider it as a thing at all extraordinary. There seems 
“ to me no wonder, that two persons, moderately conversant in 
“ critical occupations, (I am far from thinking equally so ), sitting 
“ down professedly to investigate the principles of this art, should 
“* hit upon the same principles, when in fact there are none other 
“© to hit upon, and the truth of these is acknowledged at their first 
“* enunciation. In my opinion, there would, on the contrary, be just 
“ matter of wonder if they did not hit upon them. But in truth, 
“ (concludes Mr Tyt Er), the merit of this little essay, (if it has 
“ any ),does not, in my opinion, lie in these particulars. It lies in the 
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