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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
rT HE paper on provincial coins, which 
appeared in your laft Magazine, 
contains many ufeful remarks on a 
fubje&, in the importance of which I 
fully agree with Civis.—Having lately 
met with a national coin, whichJ fup- 
pofe to be rather uncommon, I beg to 
obtain fome advantage from the know- 
ledge of your correfpondent. It is an 
halfpenny of Charles I], with an infcrip- 
tion round his head, Carolus a Curolo; 
dated 1675. I fhould feel myfelf obl'g- 
ed to Civis, if he would inform me of 
its value;—hoping, Mr. Editor, that 
you will not refufe me a corner for my 
enquiry, 
I remain, your’s, &c. 
JUVEN-ANTIQ. 
Brighton, Fal. 20,1767. 
ree 
To the Editor of ibe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OBSERVE you have admitted into 
your Monthly Magazine, my hints 
for the improvement of private mintace 
(Dec. p. 867). In condemning fpuri- 
, ous and degrading f{pecimens of private 
coins, I fhould have obferved, that fome 
are iffued (generally the thinnefi and 
bafeft) without any name of a proprietor ; 
but no piece whatever ought to be given 
by an individual, or private company, to 
the public, as forming part of the cir- 
culating medium, unlefs it 1s expre(sly 
made ‘* payable on demand,’ by tlie 
party whofe place of refidence it bears ; 
and every combination, for the rejeétion 
of all which are deftitute of fuch a 
pafiport, and every public intimation of 
at, are highly faudable and proper ; and 
ought to be promoted by the lovers of 
medals, as well as by magiftrates and 
guardians of the inferior branches of 
commerce. 
In noticing (note p.370) the furprif- 
ing inattention with which Mr. Pinker- 
ton’s excellent injunétions have been 
overlooked, I fhould have commented on 
what appears {till more extraordinary — 
the rejeCtion, or neglect, of Mr. Bol-- 
ton’s propofals. That ingenious gentle- 
man had fuccefsfully undercaken the ap- 
plication of the fteam-engine to the nice 
operation of coining, whereby a great 
number of pieces could be correétly 
thrown off, by afingle movement, com- 
plete at all points of the impreffion.—A 
{uitable apparatus was erected at Soho, 
Coin of Charles If... + Mr. Bolton’s Coining Machine. 
Chudleigh 4 = e: 
‘Cullumpioa at = és 
[Feb. 
at a great expence, and artifts of the 
firft merit were engaged, in the hope of 
being employed by Government, to 
make a new copper coinage for the king- 
dom.—Specimens of exquifite delicacy 
were exhibited —fpecimens, which may 
vie with fome of the minted gems of af- 
cient Greece, and which will be dear to 
the medalift of tafte, in fecula fecuiorum. 
But, cui dono? This is as znigmatical 
as the caufe of the barbarous detention 
of the virtuous La Fayette and De 
Puzy in the dungeons of Olmutz. 
The above ftatement is certainly 
correct in its general outline; yet it 
weuld be very interefting, if fome of 
your intelligent correfpondents fhould 
favour us, through the medium of your 
Mifcellany, with information, what are 
the precife powers and mode of operation 
of Mr.,Bolton’s coining machinery : and 
alfo, as fully as may be known, what 
was the fpecific point where the nego- 
ciation terminated ; and what were even 
- the offenfible grounds held out, why iis 
excellent overtures were inadmufible. 
A ° sl r, = ? 
At that time*, the ‘¢ extraord:maries’ 
of the “jufi aad necefary wer,’ could not 
have been a pretext. 
Dundee, Fan. 24, 1797+ Civis. 
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For ihe Monibly Magazine. 
List OF DissENTING CONGREGA- 
TIONS (CONTINUED). 
DEVONSHIRE. } 
Congregations. 
A ILSBEER ee Bi ae 
Appledore 
Afhburton = - _ 
Axminfier - - 
Bampton é S 
Barnftaple = f 
Beer - 5 * 
Biddeford - - 
Bovey Tracey “ = . 
Braunton ~ - au 
Budley - » " 
Carfwood = = e 
Colyton e a 
Crediton = = 
Dartmouth - > 
Exeter o x 
Ewmouth - a 
Ford et s 
ee ee ee | 

= His firft beautiful pattern piece, 
“¢ Render 
to C@jar,” Oc, is dated 1788. 
Hatherly 
