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li. On the Stanhope and of her Temperamenls nftlie Musical 

 Scale. By Mr. John Farev. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



SIR, 



-L HE Table of Musical Intervals which you have clone me 

 the favour to engrave for your 1 12th number, (vol. xxviii. 

 p. 143,) after I had left 'lovvn, and could nut therefore at- 

 tend to the proof which the engraver obligingly sent me, 

 unfortunately contains three errors, which I beg here to 

 correct, viz. the minor THir.D should be IGI S &c., instead 

 of 191. The numerator of the ratio of the dieze minimum. 

 should be 19,683, instead of 16,983 ; and that of the comma 

 c?zc? HALF should be 1953 instead of 1593. At page 142, 

 vol. xxviii., the tciaiperament or difierence of the equal tem- 

 perament V, from the Diatonic V, should also be corrected 

 and made — S — -j'tt m, instead of — l-^ S — -j-l m. 



Such of your readers as are in the habit of attending at 

 the Royal Institution, and of noticing the pamphlets 011 

 their library tables, can scarcely be unacquainted, and it is 

 perhaps pioper that your readers \n general should be in- 

 formed, that in the beginning of July last, a pamphlet en- 

 titled " Plain Statement of Earl Stanhope's Temperament., 

 ly Dr. Callcotf," was exhibited for sale, for a day or lwo, 

 in the shops of Mr. Birchall, Mr. By field, and perhaps of 

 others, and then disappeared therefrom, in consequence, as 

 I have been told, either of a le^al interposition or the threat 

 of such, both against that pamphlet, and the one which yon 

 did Dr. CallcoU and me the favour to reprint, at p. 143 of 

 your last vohime ; nd that a great number of copies of 

 another " Plain Statement of Earl Stanhope's Temperament, 

 by Dr. Callcott," printed some weeks prior to that offered 

 for sale as above mentioned, have since been stitched up with 

 the " Plain Statement" and " Letter to the Duke of Cum- 

 berland" above mentioned, (which two are said to have been 

 printed under Lord Stanhope's directions,) and these three 

 pamphlets in one cover, were, and 1 believe still continue 

 to he, privately circulated. The reason for which extraordinary 

 4 proceeduigs 



