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states, that the fumes of burning char¬ 
coal are said to be cuiployed with success 
ii) dcscroviug them. Tins remedy is not 
an ea.-'V one in practice, nor likely to be 
efficacious, c msiderlnij; the sort of crevices 
in fi.aors, 6lc. wherein tlie animals hide 
themselves. Perhaps, amongst your 
numerous correspondents, some one 
may, from experience, be able to point 
out a better method of driving them out 
of buildings. ^ J, SMJTii. 
To the Editor of the I\[o7ithly Hlagazine. 
SIR, 
AVING often been struch with the 
superior melody of some prose 
compositions in comparisitn with others, 
and desirous of being enabled to account 
for this difference more fully, I have read 
with much pte.^sure several- papers in 
your valuable Mir'ceilany tending to throw 
light upon the subject, especially from 
Mr. Thelwali. I should feel myself 
much obiiLiied to that respectable corre¬ 
spondent, or to any other literary gentle¬ 
man, for still further communications 
on the melody of prosaic composition. 
Your Magazine, I presume, would not 
bethought an impPAoper medium. I have 
never had an opportunity ofseeing Steele’s 
“ Prosodia Rationalis.” Are there any 
other books upon the subject worth at- 
teiKion ? Probably it will not be going 
out of the way to refer to such authors 
as are most remarkable for melody of 
style. 
Is there a correct edition of the Greek 
Testanient printed without alphabetical 
abbreviations? 
Leeds. W. Ellerby. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
HAT the Lord Chamberlain has 
some controuling pow-er over the 
public play-houses is well known, but 
what that power is I am ignorant, ex¬ 
cepting that he has, I believe, tlie means 
of preventing pieces being performed 
wjiich he may judge dangerous to the 
State. I wish to be informed whether or 
not he can interfere to prevent immoral 
pieces being acted ? also whether he can 
take avvay, or suspend, the licences in 
consequence of idle and disorderly per¬ 
sons of both sexes being suift red to infest 
the avenues to the different parts of the 
liouses? 
Answers to the above' enquiries will 
a;mch oblige ACo;^sTA>pr IIeaoeRo 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
Si R, 
1'^VEEY inventor is a benefactor to 
I b« the public, in proportion to the uti¬ 
lity of his invention. 
Therefore the government founded an 
cffice for the encouragement of inven¬ 
tions, called the Patent Otiice; but it 
has so lar declined from its original plan, 
that several societies have established 
themselves to suppdy us place, which 
certainly reffects very great Honour on tlie 
rbspectalile persons who compose these 
societies, for they have generously un¬ 
dertaken what seems (o be the dutvof 
the public, tl.-e insurance of the advan* 
tage arising from inventions to the inven¬ 
tors, who otherwise would have no alter¬ 
native but giving it to tlie public gratis, 
or confining it a secret, of no use to tne* 
world or to themselves, unless they hap¬ 
pen to be in situations wi-uch render tha 
practice of their inventions eligible. 
The objects of the before-mentioned 
societies are, 
1st. To prevent the public from in¬ 
curring any expence in obtaining the free 
use and advantage arising from new in-. 
£3 O 
ventions. 
2nd. To reward inventors; and t(^ 
proportion the premiums to the merit of 
the inventions. 
There fore, I propose: 
1st. Thatall descriptions and drawings 
received by the societies (if approved) bis 
published in periodical w'orks. 
2nd. 'i’iiat after time and experience 
lias pi nved the merits of the several in¬ 
ventions, a premium according to the 
judgments of the societies be granted ta 
each. 
By these plain rules, will the foregoing 
objects be obtained, for the public will 
be at liberty to use any invention given 
in tlie societie.s’ periodical publications; 
and any person will have a plain and 
easy ntode of presenting his invention t» 
tlie public, with a certainty of obtaining 
as much honour and profit for it as it is 
w orth ; for if ilie societies find, after some 
years, that it proves’"of much greater 
utility than was at first apprehended, they 
would grant asecond premium, according 
to the rule of proportioning premiums to 
merit, 
AYifc.—Many useful inventions arc, 
perhaps, lost from the inventors not 
having time or abilities to prove them; 
but by the above method, this advantage 
will be entirely removed, J. C. Be 
Bndgwater. 
For 
