1805.] Priignoji'ns of Leeches. — Hijiory of the Dijfenters. 395 



would conftrue In the following order :^ 



Owi); jcJ^jXiJi/Tal Tt iKTT uvTuv yiyovoluv Oi 

 avTovi;^ A^wuiuii. Thus I tianfla'e 'Afir- 

 naK/v yhes-Qai, (i-vis Athenlenfis fieri ; and 

 fior tins lenfe of the phrafe lee Demofthe- 

 nes Ili^ "Ztgtlpatvov, torn, i., p. 270 — zi 

 and 22, ed.Rcilke, where this orator, bit- 

 terly inveighing- againft Efchines, fays, 

 " Oi]/i yi-p irin' o-vj/t T^iyto ; ^Sect f.t» ouv 



— A. 16 in his Oration " Kara Nfai^aci " 

 torn, ii., p. 1375 — ■\, '* Ot'TW y.aha'/ v.ai 

 cif/.vov ■ny/jira.T tiKu ou^ov to Aciifaioc yc- 

 nV9a» ;" Came page, 1. a6, " AM.ei ■jru^k 

 Tvvz n3j«.or? a6>)>Sio? y/yovE." It will be 

 now letn that we iiiuft Tffer a-jruv to 

 ^ivov<; "►fifwTrt.u;, and ai/TiV? to to'j; to, 

 •TiAxvra, wgaTToxIfli;, i. C. tov? nuiroiov- 

 y-ivovi; ; which I refpeftfullv fnbmit to 

 the confideration of your clalUcal readers, 

 and remain. Sic. W. 



Liiierpool, Oil, 10, 1805. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 



SIR, 



IN reading over the " Flowers of Lite- 

 rature" for 1804, I find feme extracts 

 from Hayley's " Life, &c., of the late W. 

 Cowper, El'q.," amonglt which is the fol- 

 lowing : — "A leech in a bottle foretels all 

 the prodigies and convuifions in nature, 

 not by articulate utterance of oracular no- 

 tices, but by a variety of gefticiilations. — 

 No change of weather furprifcs him, and, 

 jn point of the earlieft and raoft accurate 

 intelligence, he is worth all the barometers 

 in the world." 



Iri publilhing the above in your ufeful 

 and truly pleaiing Magazine, I am in 

 hopes fome of your ingenious and fcien- 

 tific readers will favour the writer wi:h 

 fome obfervations on thefe furprillng pro- 

 perties of the leech, and the means of 

 judgingof the feveril changes of the wea- 

 ther from his gefticularions. I remember 

 about twenty years ago, more or lefs, an 

 account being publilhed in tlie Northamp- 

 ton Mercury, of this ()roperty of the leech 

 in foretelling the difFerent changes of the 

 weather, with the method of treating him, 

 and a fet of obfervations marie from the 

 long attention paid to one kept by the 

 writer of that article, how to judge of 

 what changes of weather were tocnfue. — 

 I had them once in my poffrnion, copitd 

 Irom thai paper, but which now I have 

 miflaid, and not being near any file of 

 ihofe papers of that dilfant date, I am un- 

 abk to refer. I conceive if any of your 



Correfpondents who feel interefted in this 

 dilcovery would app'y at Peele's Coffee- 

 houfe, the Northampton papers of that 

 period may be found there. 



As I am a conftant reader and great 

 admirer of your Mifcellany, I fhall feel 

 myfelf indebted to fome of your numerous 

 Correfpondents for their information as to 

 the beil publication now ex'ant relating to 

 the making all forts of wines from fruit, 

 &c. grown in England, provfd from ac- 

 tual experience. I am. Sir, &c. 



R. RUFFHF.AD, 



Lidlmgton, vem- JVoburn, Eeilfordjhire, 

 OH. 21, 1805. 



to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



PERMIT me to reply to your Corre- 

 fuondent Mr. James Eaftburn, of 

 New- York, through the channel of your 

 Mifceflany ; as that gentleman has avail- 

 ed himfelf of your indulgence to make his 

 inquiry through that medium in the Num- 

 ber for this month. 



He alks, " Whether there is any pro- 

 fpei5t that a continuation of the Hift«ry of 

 Proteftant Diflenters will be foon publilh- 

 ed ?" 



I thank him for the inquiry, as it In- 

 forms me that the dcfign excit.s attention,, 

 and is a prefumptive proof that my edition 

 of the " Hillory of the Puritans," by Mr. 

 Neal, has not only reached America, but 

 met with approbaiion there. 



Various occurrences creating a demand 

 on my immediate attention and time, have 

 for feven years oblfruiled my execution of 

 the intentions I had formed to continue, 

 or rather refume, the " Hiftory of the Dif- 

 fentersfrom tlie Period of the Revolution j" 

 but I have never wholly loft fight of that 

 defian. I canrct fix a date for the ap- 

 pearance of that w.irk, but hope to be 

 able, at the opening of the next fpring, 

 if Providence favour me with health, to 

 pronounce fome confiderable progrefs in 

 it. The queition propofed by Mr. Eaft- 

 burn a£lson my mind as a Hamulus to the 

 prolecution of it ; and in the mean time I 

 fli.iU ftcl niyfeil greatly obliged and en- 

 couraged by the communicaiich from him, 

 or any other gentleman, of luch hints or 

 material* as may afliit my purpole, and 

 contribute to the execution of it with cor- 

 reilnels, authenticity and nicrit. 

 1 am. Sir, your's, ^c. 



Joshua Toulmin-,' 

 Birmingham, OSl, 11, 1 8 05, 



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