1822] 
When Love—who zent—forgot to save 
The young, the beautiful, the brave, 
The lonely hope of Sestos’ daughter. 
Oh! when alone along the sky 
Her turret-torch was blazing high, 
Though rising gale, and breaking foam, 
And shrieking sea-birds warn’d him home, 
He could not see, he would not hear 
Or sound or sign foreboding fear. 
His eye but saw that tight of love 
The only star it hail’d above, 
His ear but rang with Hero’s song, 
“Ye wayes divide not lovers long !” 
That tale is old, but love anew 
May nerve young hearts to prove as true.* 
The best editions of Muszeus are 
those of Schroder, Leovard, 1743; and 
of Rover, L. Bat. 1727. There is like- 
wise a very good copy of his text with 
a Latin interpretation among the Poetz 
Minores Grzeci, Cantab. 1671. 
* Byron’s Bride of Abydos, Canto 2. 
Biography of Eminent Persons. 
229 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Me has been said respecting 
the consumption of smoke in 
London, but no efficient plan has yet 
been adapted to privateuse. It is well 
known that smoke only requires sufii- 
cient heat and it will combust; for if 
vou let the smoke of coal pass through 
a coke fire placed above, the heat will 
be sufficient to consume it; therefore 
as the present mode of building is to 
make one stack of chimneys suffice for 
a whole dwelling, it perhaps would not 
be any difficult matter to let the smoke 
pass through a coke fire placed in some 
convenient manner at the top; but as 
Iam not very well acquainted with this 
subject, I should feel obliged if you 
would lay it before your correspondents, 
with a hope that some of them will 
take up the idea. H. 
BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
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ACCOUNT of the LIFE of DR. D. TORI” 
BIO NUNEZ, JURIS-CONSULT, DE™ 
PUTY from the PROVINCE of SALA™ 
MANCA to the SPANISH CORTES, the 
Sittings of which commenced March 1, 
1822 ; communicated by himself in a 
LETTER fo JEREMY BENTHAM, Esq. 
My Revered Master, 
CCUPIED successively by po- 
YF jitical affairs, and by the consi- 
deration of the Penal Code submitted 
to our extraordinary Cortes, and lately 
referred to a commission of this literary 
universify, of which commission I am 
a member, I have been unable sooner 
to answer your valuable letter. You 
are, however, assured of my gratitude 
by your correspondent who transmitted 
it tome from Vittoria, and with whom 
I hope to have further intercourse at 
Madrid. In that letter you ask me to 
give you some account of my past life, 
and of the accident which brought me 
acquainted with your works; the 
praises which you bestow upon me are 
due rather to your principles and 
analyses than to the new arrangement 
in which I have presented them in the 
“ Ciencia Social.”* In the concluding 
* A work, intituled Espirito de Ben- 
tham Sistema de la Ciencia Social. [deado 
por el Jurisconsulto Ingles Jeremias Ben- 
tham, y puesto en execution conforme a los 
principios del Autor original, por el Dr. 
D. ToribioNunez, Jurisconsulto Espanol. 
Salamanca: Imprenta Nueva: Por D. 
Bernardo Martin, 1820, 8vo. pages 140. 
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part of the letter you relate tome some 
particulars concerning the course of 
yonr studies, aud concerning the uni- 
versities of Oxford and Cambridge, and 
you desire to know what were my 
studies at that of Salamanca. 
Respect and gratitude compel me to 
oblige you in every thing; and the 
pleasure I feel at finding myself in fa- 
miliar conversation with my adored 
master, of whose existence I doubted, 
makes my own satisfaction inseparable 
from the fulfilment of my duty towards 
you. 
7 My early studies at Arevola were 
without doubt more fortunate than 
yours, as you represent them to me. 
At the time when my parents devoted 
me to the study of the Latin tongue 
(by which it is here usual to begin the 
operation of confounding the reason,) 
by a chance very rare among us there 
fell to my lot a tutor who had an accu- 
rate perception of the points of resem- 
blance and those of difference between 
that language and the Spanish, and 
who presented to me his comparisons 
with the greatest assiduity and clear- 
ness. His noble and amiable character 
and deportment inspired me first with 
respect, then with reflection, and lastly 
with confidence; my disposition and 
my application pleased him, and at the 
conclusion of this course of study at the 
age of fourteen, I loved the wisdom of 
Socrates, of Cebes, and of Plato, with 
which, through the medium of the hon 
in 
