THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 133.] SEPTEMBER l, 1805. [2, of Vol. 20. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



To tke Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



AS a filfe report has been circulated 

 in England, thit ProfefT.jr Hermann 

 w<s the editor of the editirn of " Porfon's 

 Eunpides," which was r»ubl,(hed at Leip- 

 zig, I fend )ou the following note which 

 I received from him on thit fubjefV, in 

 order that it may be communicated to the 

 public. 



" Editioneir. quatuor Tragcediarum Euripi- 

 dis, cum Notis Richard! Forfoni, quae tam- 

 quam editionis alterius, corredlioris, & inui- 

 cibus locupletiffimis auflae volamen pri- 

 mum, Lipfiae, 1802, prodiit, mihi impu- 

 tari comperi. EjusmoJi laudem quum nemi- 

 niinvideam, publice declarandiim exiftimavi, 

 me neque auilore nequc adjutore iftam editi- 

 onem taftam elTe. Faciends ejus confilium 

 ceperat librarius, non dubiofruftu, in tanta 

 raritate llbrorum Britannicorum : opera de- 

 mandata fuit doclo cuidam, neque ignoto vi- 

 ro, non mihi, qui hujufmodi negotium ne 

 rccepturus quldem fuiiVem. Ego, cum om- 

 nibus qui Grj»cas litteras amant, ex animo 

 opto, ut R. I'orfonus reliquas q jDque Euri- 

 pidis Tragosdias edat, non uc ne deltituat il- 

 ium, qui fine prima editione alteram correc- 

 • tiorem dare non poterit, fed ut expleat litte- 

 ratorum omnium defideria.— Scr. Lipfix d. 

 xii. Julii CIS. 13 cccv. 



GonoFREDUS Hermannus, 

 in Academia LipAenfi Eloq. Prof. P. O, 



ProfelTor Hermann is at prefent engag- 

 ed in preparing for the prefs an edition of 

 .^rch)lus, wih a Latin tranflation, cri- 

 tical notes, compleat indexes, enlarged 

 fchola, and a full and exa£\ coUeilion of 

 all the various readings which are to be 

 found either in ail the printed editions 

 or in the mmufcripts hitherto collated, 

 which have been fo negligently given in 

 Schutze's edition. At ihe end will be 

 added ••» difTeriation on the metres of TEl- 

 chylus, fometliing fimilar to that which 

 ihe I lofeflor hag already written on Pin- 

 dar. Explar.atory notes will only be 

 gi»en where (onner writrrs have miliaken 

 the fenfe, as Schufze's Coniinentary may 

 always be bought without the text. The 

 whole will probably confift of three quar- 



MoNiaLY Mag. No. 133. 



to Volumes, the firft of which will be 

 publilhcd next fpiing. F. H. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



I HAVE looked over Mr. Patkinfon's 

 l;ite "Tour in America," and have 

 found in it fome harlh exprefTions and 

 falfe conckifions drawn from the premifes 

 he has laid down. It is (he prociuce of a 

 mind attached to local habits, and difcon- 

 tented with every thing whicn does not 

 correfpond with a particular mode of life 

 and of farming. 



The work fcems intended to pr ve, that 

 nature has been extrerr.ely unkind to the 

 United States 5 that the unoriatetul foil 

 will never reward the toil of the labourer, 

 and that America feems defigned only 

 for convifts. This is his exprdlioji, page 

 489, which perhajis cioes not merit to be 

 here repeated; but that America holds cut 

 a more cheering proFpe£>, is fully proved 

 by the following fa6ls. The Ui.ited 

 States double their population in twenty- 

 five years ; and I believe no other nation, 

 not even the Ifiaelites, ever doubled their 

 numbers in fo fhort a period ; confequent. 

 ly, as men multiply in proportion to the 

 facility of living, the linds mult return 

 abundance in proportion to the labour be- 

 ftowed upon them; orherwiie tnere could 

 not be that facility of hving. 



Another proof is, that the fix millions 

 of people who inhabit the United States 

 of Amtrica impoi t on an average from 

 five to fix millions ftcling per annum of 

 BriuHi merchandize, for which they pay, 

 otherwile they would not be trulled ; and 

 they export 10 the amount of about thir- 

 teen milliiins fterling a-year ; no other 

 country of the fame age ever had fo great 

 a commerce ; nor is there any country at 

 thi.') time, except E'lglaiid, which, in pro- 

 portion toiler population, has lb great anj 

 pr<jdii6fivc an induUry. Whence then 

 aiiCcstiie wealth which nourirtie* luch a 

 commerce, if not from the laiuls ? — tor 

 America cannut be called a mir.ufadf uring 

 country. 



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