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«© 3d. That the parties. circulating 
fuch coin, be refgonfible to the holders 
for the value in gold or filver, when de- 
manded; and, fhail ftamp their names, 
and an obligation to that purpofe. on the 
‘ coins or tokens fo iffue@by them.” 
It might alfo be proper, that fuch per- 
fons ifuing promiflory coins, fhould take 
out a licence for that purpofe, from the 
principal officers of the minf, as an au- 
thority for their coinage; giving fecuri- 
ty, at the fame time, for their obfery- 
ance of the above conditions. 
Dundee, Feb..11, 1797: Crivis. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
TN your Magazine for laft June, is in- 
ferted a letter of mine, on the fub- 
ject of a fpecies of metre ufed by Ho- 
race. As none of your corre{pondents 
have taken notice of the hint jfuggetfted 
in it, I prefume, that they think my 
obfervations either well founded, or ill 
founded, or of little importance. The 
latter can hardly be the cafe, with any 
man tolerably converfant with claiiical - 
literature: for he muft have perufed 
fome of the writings of our moft cele- 
brated critics, on this fubjeét, and thence 
have feen the importance which is jutft- 
ly attributed to it by the learned. But 
perhaps, fome may think my_ remarks 
ill. founded. Thefe perfons, I requeft 
to read. over attentively, the fixteenth 
Qde of the fir&. bock; and anfwer, 
whether it is probable, that Horace, in 
making excufes for his guilty iambics, 
fhould have.wfed in his recantation a fi- 
milar meafure : ; 
Me quoque pectoris 
Tentavit in dulci juventa 
Fervor, & in celeres Jambos 
Mifit furentem: nunc exo mitibus 
Mutare quero triftia. 
Compare with the above paflage, a 
few lines in the Art of Poetry : 
Archilochum proprio rabies urmavit Tambo, 
Hunc focci cepere pedem, grandefque cothurni, 
Alternis aptum fermonibus, & populares 
Vincentem ftrepitus, & natum rebts agendis. 
The lyric meafures, as the fubfe- 
quent verfes inform us, are adapted to 
fubje€ts mutia non griflia; and hence, f 
think, I am juftified in not allowing an 
iambic to be ufed in the meafure fimi- 
Jar to that of the Ode now quoted. 
But Englifh ears are very little renf- 
ble of this diftin€tion. This is true; 
and for this reafon, very few enter into 
the {fpirit of Horace’s poetry. A drun- 
ken-fong,.a hymn to the gods, a love- 
_. Metre of Horace... Pappelbaum on Greek MSS. 
[ March, 
fong, whatever may be the fubjeét, 
whatever may be the metre, all are 
mouthed out, particularly by perfons 
educated at our great {chools, in a way 
to break the drum of the ear of your’s, 
PHILOMETER. 
ee EE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
Toe long-expeéted work of PaPret- 
BAUM, is at laft arrived ; but it has 
arrived too late, for the perfon whofe re- 
putation 1s at. ftake, to make due repa- 
ration to the public, for the unfounded 
affertions in his former writings. By 
the death of Mr. Travis, we may pro- 
bably be deprived of his remarks on Mr. 
Marfh’s Letters, and -certainly of an 
anfwer to this werk; which, in various 
places, brings forward fuch~ ftrong 
charges againft the late archdeacon, as, if 
the repeated cenfures of a PORsON, a 
MarsH, and a GrRiESBACH, had not 
driven him entirely out of the repub- 
lic of criticifm, muft confign him to 
eternal oblivion. PAPPELBAUM, has 
made an exaét collation of the Codex 
Revianus, on which Travis fo much de- 
pended; he has brought forward fuch 
{trong proofs, that no one can doubt of 
its being a tranfcript from the Complu- 
tenfian edition of the Teftament, with 
{ome variations inferted for a particular 
purpofe. Every lover of facred criti-- 
ciim will be naturally anxious to fee 
this work, by which the defenders of 
J. v. 7, have loft the little prop on 
which they refied ; that is, ona ftraw. It 
feems fingular, that the unhappy arch- 
deacon, fhould have entered into a con- 
teft, in which every ftep he took led to — 
his difgrace. His “Letters to Gibbon, 
excited the reply of Porfon. His jour- 
ney to Paris, fhowed his ignorance of 
Greek, and incapacity in collat‘on. His 
remarks on MSS. made every one 
attentive to the fubje€t, and gave Marth 
the opportunity of fthowing his total 
ignorance ef the Silefian readings : laftly, 
his ridiculous affertions on the Ravian 
manufcript, have produced this work, 
which not only contradiéts every thing 
faid by the’archdeacon on this head, but 
by giving, in the appendix, the original 
letter of Pappelbaum, to the faid 
archdeacon, fhows, how men’s minds 
when worked up to a certain pitch, are 
blinded not only to every {pecies of in- 
formation, but to the. certainty of future 
punifhment. Your's, - 
Loudon, March, 14) 1797- CRITICUSy : 
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