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Queries and Answers. 



[Feb. I, 



For tho' iiiou work Met my mother ill, 

 And mad'st thy own, my dpsiiii'd bride, 

 I feel thou art my fiuher still. — 

 Begot in sin, to die iu shame. 

 My life begun, ;ind ends the same : 

 As err'd the sire, so erred the son. 

 And thou must punish both in one. — 

 My crime seems worst to human view, 

 But God must jndge between us two." 



We confess that, for mir own parts, 

 we read these ditterent extracts with 

 very different emotions ; shoiikl the 

 same relative superiority be niaintaiiiod 

 in the promised tragedy of Lord Byron, 

 the Duke of Mirandola v,ill hardly 

 prove a match for the Doije Falicri. 



Several minor faults of JMr. C. de- 

 serve reprehension. When the Duke, 

 after a quarrel with Guide, desires him 

 to be gay " in dress a« looks,"' the lat- 

 ter answers, '• I will be with you pre- 

 sently rc-rfre*.9erf."' A miserable ef|iii- 

 voque, which we hope Mr, C. will ex- 

 punge in another edition. 



In the concluding scene, when Isi- 

 dora is begging for Guido's life, the 

 Duke, liearing her voice, exclaiir.s, 

 " Hush I music, hush !" then turning 

 round, exclaims, *' Ah ! is it you?'' 

 One of the instances, in which Mr. C. 

 aiming at some stroke of nature, falls 

 into artectation. 



Weshoull liave thought that a per- 

 son so well read in Shakespear as Mr. 

 C, would nrtt have mistakeu one cha- 

 racter for auotlier, as he does in the 

 Advertisement, where he calls Leontes, 

 in the Winter's Tale, Polixenes. 



After all the encomiums which pane- 

 gyrists can bestow, and all the censures 

 which critics can lavish, Mr. C."s works, 

 like others, will take their just station 

 in popular esteem. If that station be 

 not I he loftiesl, tho' otir wishes may 

 not be gratified, yet our anticipations 

 will be realized. 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 

 To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



I HAVE often admired the valuable mis- 

 cellaneous information of your Magazine ; 

 not a subject connected with art, science, 

 or nature, biit you seem to covet, so as to 

 make it a cyclopedia of itsidf. 



I noticed in your Number for August the 

 queries of an " Apple-eater;" indulge me 

 by inserting my instruction for him ; it is a 

 prescription made up from much experi- 

 ence. Apples for keeping should never be 

 plucked, till they are quite ripe ; the dark 

 brown colour of the pippin will tell your 

 correspondent then is the time to separate 

 the multitudinous brotherhood of apples 

 from their visible origin the branches : they 

 should always b« plucked, and never shaken 



from the tree. For keeping, let him strew 

 llie lbM)r of a dry interior room with clean 

 freshstraw; letchiinge of uir have as little 

 to do with the apples as possible ; then let 

 him place them with some little care on 

 their bed ; do not let them be huddled to- 

 gether ; and he will preserve tbcni from one 

 season to iinothi-r sound, and with much of 

 their origiiKil flavour, as vihen first plucked. 

 But, Sir, if .fnck Frost should once get at 

 them, he will play the murderous tyrant so 

 much with them, that they will as assuredly 

 perish as I am a C'onditcm Pomum. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 



SIR, 



AN old Correspondent w'ishes in his turn 

 to obtain a little geographical infoi mn- 

 tion, and will be glad if some of your renders 

 will inform him here of the situation of the 

 fortress of Modlin, in or near Poland, a 

 place much spoken of in Napoleon's wars. — 

 I have sought for it in vain iu many of our 

 best maps, and even Arrovvsmith's Edinbro' 

 Gazetteer does not mention it. Any in- 

 formation through your standard Magazine 

 will oblige your friend, X. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magaxint. 



SIR, 



I FULLY concur with your correspondent 

 on the subject of cruelty to inferior ani- 

 mals, in thinking that it w-ould be advisabie 

 to have a meeting of such persons as may 

 consider the establishment of a society for 

 its prevention to be desirable ; and having 

 about a jear since had a conversation 

 with some friends in this neighbourhood, 

 about forming one for Southwark, I have 

 little doubt that such a society might bo 

 established ; and should he, or your other 

 correspondent, call a meeting, I shall be 

 happy to attend ; or, if favoured vrith their 



Bameii 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine 



SIR, 



IT would not be an uselessenquiry, to as- 

 certain the profit or advantage gained 

 by the different takers of the loans during 

 the late disasterous and extravagant wars, 

 calculated in gold. — That is to sny, taking 

 tlie funds at the present price of 3 per cents 

 consols at 70, and the price of gold at 

 i;3. 17.V. lOrf. per oz. — and the price of the 

 loans, as given at the time, with the value 

 of gold at the same period— for instance, 

 if the minister borrowed in the year 1812 

 20 millions at 53, and gold at £5, he 

 could receive 2,650,000 oz. of gold, and the 

 lonn-moiiger could now receive, 24th .Sept. 

 \hW, 3,783,783 oz, of gold, over and above 

 the interest and compound interest be has 

 been receiving during the interval. — We are 

 not vociferously loyal for nothing. Money, 

 with the interest and compound interest, for 

 the nation has nearly always been borrow- 

 ing, would amount, I am persuaded, to above 

 a million sterling. A Tax-Paver. 



Islington, Sept. 24, 1820. 



