i SH.) 
modest as she was beautiful; for, after 
the song was published, it was very dif- 
ficult for a stranger to get a sight of her. 
The writer of this article had the above 
account froma gentleman who knew this 
celebrated beauty, about the time that 
the song was published. Ww. 
St. Austin-street. 
» PS. Mr. William Mason, the poet, in- 
vented the piano-forte.——Sup. Ency. Britan= 
nica, uol. 2, p. 866. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sTR, , 
R. Knox, in his Essay on the 
# Life and Writings of Dr. Jortin, 
makes the following remarks: ‘* Among 
modern Latin poets, there are few who 
do not yield to Dr. Jortin; the little ode 
“in which the calm life of a philosopher is 
compared to a gentle stream gliding 
through a silent grove, is highly pleasing 
to the mind, and perfectly elegant in 
composition.” I shovld suppose, that 
there are few of your readers who have 
not read the ode to which the doctor 
alludes; but for the benefit of those few 
it is here subjoined : 
Qualis per nemorum nigra silentia 
Vallesque irriguas, et virides dumos, 
Serpit fons placidus murmure languido 
Secretum peragens iter: 
Flexas per patrios circumagens aquas 
Paulum ludit agros, et sinuat fugam, 
Donec przecipiti jam pede defluens 
Miscétur gremio maris: 
Talis per tacitam devia semitam 
ZEtas diffugeat, non opibus gravis, 
Won expertafori jurgia turbedi, aut 
Palme sanguineum decus. 
Cumgqueinstant tenebrz, ct lux brevis occidit, 
_ 4. Et ludo satura et fessa laboribus, 
n Somni frater iners membra jacentia 
Componat gelida manu. 
‘Tn referring to Dr. Jortin’s Lusus 
Poetici, { find the ode, verbatim, as 
. above; the same is also to be found, with 
the variation. of about halfa-dozen 
_ Nords, among the poems of . Vincent 
° 4 ‘ ” 
_ Bourne, onder the title, “ Votum.” I 
think Dr. Knox must have seen it there 
_ also; what reason he could, have in at- 
_ thibuting it to Dr, Jortin, in preference 
; _to Bourne, I am at a loss to conjecture. 
_ It must, however, be evident to every 
one, that it cannot be the productionsyf 
both of them: the writer of thiswil 
Sige be obliged to any one who wall 
nform him, through the medium of your 
Magazine, to which of them ix really be- 
longs, and how it came to be inserted 
| Monruty Mac: No. 211. 
eesti lly) 
On the Emerson Theory of Aches. 
225 
both. in Bourne’s poems, and in the 
Lusus Poetici of Dr. Jortin, The fame 
indeed, of both these scholars, is. too 
firmly established to be in the least in- 
jured by the tearing out from their works 
the leaf which contains this ode. » The 
chaplets which encircle their brows are 
composed of every sweet, of every 
choicest flower; their fragrance is too 
strong to be destroyed by the plucking 
out of this, a flower of most exquisite 
perfume; it is nevertheless right in 
literary, as in every other species of pro~ 
perty, to render unto every one his own, 
or, to speak in the words of Dr. J, hime 
self, 
‘© Palmam qui meruit, ferat.” 
Coventry, 1811. D. 
SEE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S you have thought the letters which 
Ihave hitherto sent you, deserving 
a place in your Magazine, I am induced 
to believe that the following will obtain 
similar favour. 
In the 28th volume of the Gentleman’s 
Magazine, for the year 1758, page 307, 
Mr. Emerson called the attention of the 
‘public to the theory of the equilibration 
of arches, which he had before published 
in his works. It is manifest from this 
paper, important as to the elucidation of 
Mr. Emerson’s idea of an arch, a's well as 
from the accompanying dizgram, and the 
diagrams in bis publications, that Mr, 
Emerson conceived that arches were 
built by inverted offsets, and he was an- 
acquainted ‘with the circumstance, that 
voussoirs invariably in Europe, wliatever 
may be the custom in China, are the 
constituents of an arch. There can he 
no mistake respecting this fact; as jn 
those diagrams the joints of the stones or 
bricks of which his arch was to be com- 
posed, are shewn. 
Dr. Hutton, in his work on this theory, 
defines an arch “an opening of a bridge 
through, or under which the water 
passes.” Others, who support this theory, 
when compe'led-to the admission of youg- 
jgoirsj.say that, bythe theory, they must 
she infinitely jshort... Dr. Hutton, so far 
from considering that voussoirs have any 
‘relation to the-theony, speaks of them ag 
quite separate things, in the same manner 
was hie does-of the balustrade, or cornice ; 
and gives the following practical rule, by 
whigh he evidently considers the arch out 
of the reach of the theory, or otherwise 
$0 eminent a mathematician could not 
QF have 
