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I confess 1 was not only much instructed and greatly edified, 
but also, in no small degree, solaced and comforted by this elabor* 
ate dissertation of Dr. Magee ; in as much, as it tends strongly to 
prove, that the kings and conquerors ordained under the dispensa- 
tions of providence, to superintend the government of the various 
nations of the earth, are by no means deserving of the ignorant ob- 
loquy which it is too common to throw upon them ; and that even 
the human sacrifices of Bonaparte himself, may possibly proceed 
from his deep sense of religion, and his profound respect for the 
laws of nature and of nations. 
It is surely among the desiderata of human knowledge, that 
Dr. Magee should apply his new method of theological demon- 
stration, to mathematical instruction, so much more luminous and 
convincing as it seems to be. If he does not secure his invention 
in the patent office of his own country, I greatly fear that some in- 
genious Yankee speculator in patent rights will forestal him, and 
claim it as a notion, the genuine offspring of some cisatlantic brain* 
I cannot say how far Dr. Magee coincides with the limitation of 
Grotius, saltern afiud moratiores omnes ; but be that as it may, I 
do suppose the learned Professor, in his adopted character as pro- 
chein amy of Mrs. Bull, will be as fairly entitled to remuneration 
as Dr. Horsley ; and if Hurlo Thrumbo were alive, he would cer- 
tainly obtain it. In our state, the circular mileage of these wit-, 
nesses, so liberally allowed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania 
even to the President Judges, would form a very pretty item in 
the bill of costs,* made out in the Doctor’s favour, and amply re- 
24849. Oldend, i. p 329, The Floridans, Peruvians, and Mexicans, Acosta, 
22 7. 234. Gage, i. p 154. The Otaheitians, Forster’s Observations, p 4176. 
Cook, i. 185. The Inhabitants of Madagascar, ii. 52. Sonnerat. The Bra- 
mins and Hindoos, i. 186. Sonner. The Inhabitants of Formosa, Fsal- 
man.* p 43. 60. The Chinese, Memoir, concer. les Chinois, ii. 400, 
In order bkewise to appease the Gods, they murdered or exposed sick 
persons. This was done by the ancient Persians. See my Dissertation 6n 
the Religion of the Persians. This is likewise still done by the Mingrelians^ 
ILamberti, p 153. The Hindoos, Ives, p 26. The Hottentots, Beschryv. i. 
226. The Kamschadales, Steller, 271 . 295. The nations on the Oronoko, i, 
333. 335. Gumilla. *(Psalmanasar deceived Meiners for a time. T. C ) 
* It will be necessary for the sake of some of my readers, to explain this 
allusion in my correspondent’s paper. It relates to the method of making 
out the bill of costs of sheriffs and constables, who summon witnesses to 
court, and who are entitled to mileage only according to the nearest route. Ira 
the present year, 1814, also, an act passed the Legislature of Pennsylvania* 
allowing circular mileage to the President Judges of the court of Common 
