520 



and when the further detriment to that 

 state, from pluralities, non-residences, 

 and siinoniacal tricks, is added, I am 

 astonished that the independent, incor- 

 ruptible,andunvvilling-to-be-corrupted 

 members, do not join together in a 

 plain and full statement to the legisla- 

 ture, of tiieir own, and their church, 

 and their country's wrongs, from the 

 gross abuses wliich I have necessarily 

 so slightly noticed. 



It may be asked, what, then, have the 

 church -reformers, the Wesleys, the 

 AVhitfields, and all the self-gratulating 

 Evaugelicaland Gospel ministers done? 

 The answer is, they have rivetted the 

 foregoing evils, by neglecting their own 

 cures, purchasing livings, and, by a 

 curious kind of conscience, that has, in 

 some remarkable instances, been very 

 niemoraldc for keeping. Had these 

 ultras instituted a few bye-laws among 

 themselves, such as, 1st, We pledge 

 ourselves always to reside in our pa- 

 rishes ; 2ndly, M'e declare that we will 

 never hold two benefices at the same 

 time; 3rdly, We will nevor purchase 

 any church service ; 4th ly, We will use 

 every means in our power to get a com- 

 mutation of tithes ; othly. We will al- 

 ways be willing to refer to private ar- 

 bitration, any dispute concerning our 

 clerical rights ; Otiily, We will care- 

 fully avoid all doubtful jwints of con- 

 trovei'sy — they might have had, at least, 

 the merit of example. I only touch on 

 a few themes — but 1 am getting off my 

 subject. C. Li'CAS. 



lilaij Sffi, 18 21.^ 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIK, 



IN the following extract from Mr. 

 Boswell's Life of Dr. .Tohnson, vol. 

 iv. pp. 196 and 7, your correspondent 

 Poplicola, in your Magazine for May, 

 will find hisenqtiirj'answered, respect- 

 ing the Latin line he quotes — 

 " Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementaf ." 

 Vrith the following elucidation of the 

 other saying: — " Quos Deus (it should 

 rather be Quem Jupiter) vult perdere, 

 prius demeutat," Mr. Boswell was fur- 

 nished by Mr. Richard Howe, of Asp- 

 ley, in Bedfordshire, as communicated 

 to that gentleman by his friend Mr. 

 John Pit (si, late rector of Great Brick- 

 hill, in Buckinghamshire. 



Perhaps no scrap of Latin whatever 

 lias been more quoted than this. It 

 occasioi^ally falls even from those who 

 arc scrupulous, even to pedantry in their 

 latinity, and will not admit a word into 



Excursion through North Wales. 



[July I, 



their compositions which has not the 

 sanction of the first age. The word 

 demento is of no authority, either 

 as a verb active or neuter. After a 

 long search for the purpose of deciding 

 a bet, some gentlemen of Cambridge 

 found it amongst the fi'agments of Eu- 

 ripides, in what e<lition I do not recol- 

 lect, where it is given as a translation 

 of a Greek lambick. 



0» ©£o; ^iKu atioKtaai, TTgwr' awof otrai. 



The above scrap was found in the 

 hand-writing of a suicide of fashion. 

 Sir D. O., some years ago, lying on the 

 table of the room where he had de- 

 stroyed himself. The suicide was a 

 man of classical acquirements : he jleft 

 no other paper behind him. 



May I9th, 1821. Allsharps. 



For the Monthly Magazine. ' 



EXCURSION through north WAliE.S, 



in 1S19. 

 C Cant hnied from No. 354,p. 422J 



THE scenery in the neighbourhood 

 of Dugoeti, or the Black Wood, 

 is highly in unison with such dark and 

 daring outrages, and a more gloomy 

 and romantic spot could not well have 

 been chosen for the perpetration of 

 robbery and murder. About half way 

 between Dinas Mowddwg and Dgl- 

 gelley, we began to ascend a bleak and 

 tremendous pass between the motm- 

 tains, a mile or rather more in extent, 

 and called what we fear no English- 

 man will be able to articulate— Bwlch 

 Oerdrws, or the Pass rf the Frozen 

 Door. Nothing can be more dreary 

 and desolate than the surrounding sce- 

 nery ; high hills, their declivities 

 plentifully strewn with fragments of 

 rock, and almost perpetually enve- 

 loped in mist, boxind ihe pass on either 

 side, and present a most dismal and 

 comfortless piospect, the deep silence 

 of which is only broken by a fierce 

 rivulet, which brawling among the 

 clifts of the mounfiiins on the left, pur- 

 sues its course with angry vehemence. 

 It was in this nigged defile, our com- 

 panion told us, tliat the principal land- 

 holders in North Wales held a meeting 

 after the wars of Owen Gleudower, in 

 order to consult upon tlie best means 

 of enforcing the observance of justice, 

 without any other legal sanction than 

 their own influence. After the death 

 of Gleudower, the situation of the 

 AVelsh was miserable and forloi'n in 

 the extreme. Still pertinaciously 

 wedded (o tlie unshackled customs of 



their 



