1797-] 
and many others, entertain, refpecting 
the true author of the poems in quet- 
tion, 
One of the principal faéts to be invef- 
’ tigated is, whether the compofitions, faid 
‘to be handed down traditionally, from 
a remote period, and ftill preferved among 
the Highlanders, in the Erfe tongue, 
bear tufficient refemblance to the tranf- 
lations of Mr. MACPHERSON, to jJuftify 
the belief in the authenticity of the lat- 
ter? Lhe ingenious and interefting re- 
marks of your correfpondent Merrion, 
en the Welch language, have naturally 
fuggefted a hope, that fome equally in- 
te'ligent fcholar in the fier tongue of 
the Highlands, may have the iaclina- 
tion, as well as the ability, to gratify 
your readers with remarks on the fub- 
ject of Osstaw’s poems. Your's, . 

To the Editor of the Monthly Mazazxine. 
STR, 
HAVE not the leaf interefi in the 
queition between certain phyficians 
and the College, but it gives me, as it 
muft every lover of truth, concern, to 
find, that an argument may be maintain-— 
- ed, in acourt of law, upon a ground, 
which every man in court knows to be 
untenable. I was forcibly ftruck with 
this circumftance a few days ago, when 
accident carried me into the Court of 
King’s Bench, at a time that a learned 
couniel was difcuffing the queftion in fa- 
vour of the two univerfities. He is a 
member of one, and muft be well ac- 
quainted with the nature of the ftudy of 
phyfic in thofe two learned femminaries of 
education. His argument was, that the 
college fhould be diftinguifhed by the 
characters admitted into it; and that 
they fhould give proof of their abilities 
and talents, by the progrefs made in 
their medical ftudies at one of the uni- 
verfities, where medicine was a branch 
_ of academical education. Now this 
learned counfel knows, as well as myfelf, 
that, whatever the flatates may fay on 
the fubjett, the ftudy of medicine 1s to- 
tally negleéted in the univerfity of Cam- 
bridge, of which he is a member ; that 
there are no lectures whatever given 
‘thereon the theory or practice of phy-. 
fic, or any fubject appropriate to a phy- 
fician ; and that the little knowledge to 
be derived from the courfe of anatomical 
le€tures there, is more for the fake of 
the general fcholar, than a practitioner 
in the art. As I faid before, I am no 
Moral and Profeffional Charafier of Barriflers. 
363 
ways interefted in the: decifion of the 
queftion, but I think it of great im- 
portance to mankind, that the moral 
character of the barrifer.thould be in_ 
volved in every affertion which, he 
makes in a court of law, of the truth or 
falfehood of which he is a competent 
judge, from his own experience , and 
that fome mark of cenfure thould follow 
from the court, when it fees 4 barrifter 
trifling with them. | ropoie, that the 
barrifter fhould be called wocn to anfwer 
this queftion : ‘* Why do you mean to im- 
poe upon us, by fuch a reprefentation 
of the flate of medicine, in the two uni- 
Verfities 2” 
{windler in trade, or a fwindler in any 
other concern, are equally refpeétable 
ra re ae 
i iwindier in law, or a 
characters. Your's, 
PHILALETHES. 
; 
ad Dt rr ? a - 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
IN One Mine: No.1Vv 
1s your Magazine (No. IV) for May, 
aeelige 200, your corref{pondent 
HORTULANUS, has given us an inte- 
refting account of Mr. Simpson’s me- 
thod of raifing peaches.—1 hone he will 
Ie One c +r 
be fo good, in a future Number, as to 
tell us— 
Whether any hot-bed, either of 
dung or tan, had heen, tried by that 
gentleman, under his glafies > 
Whether each of the trees were in 
feparate houfes, or all in one houfe }— 
which, by the meafure he gives for cach 
tree, muft be about 60 fect long, for fe- 
SVC AGREES: 
Whether it is neceflary to plant the 
trees within the frames; or whether 
they might not be trained in from the 
outlide, asin fome hot-houfes 2 
How long the trees were planted be- 
fore they began to bear ? 
Whether any ufe was made of the 
earth under the trees, for any other 
crop > 
At what age the trees were moved into 
the hot-beds, and at what time of the 
year ? 
His anfwering thefe queftions, will, I 
hope, oblige other readers of your ule- 
ful Mifcellany, .as well as your corre- 
{fpondent, _ RL E. 

To the Editor of ibe Monthly Magazines 
SIR, 
I HAVE lately received, from a very 
reipeétable correfpondent, 
at Phila- 
‘delphia, fome particular information re- 
{petting a negro man of Virginia, who, 
in 
