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as It is now : notwithftanding, as a mo- 
nofyllable, even in fome of the above 
lines, it would have read better, as may 
appear from the following—not meant as 
emendations of the di€tion, but of the 
metres 
«* That. fummons thee to Heay’n or: (elfe) to 
hell ”” : : 
«© That Heav’n’s (great) vault fhould crack,” 
Oe AALS 
*€ Now let the rain of Heav’n (make) wet this 
€€ place,”’ &c. 
‘¢ By Heav’n (Sir) I had rather coin my heart,’? 
&c. 
Mr. Malone, was, no doubt, led aftray 
by the play of OTHELLO, where the 
word Heaven is frequently uled, and 
(i believe) always as a monofyllable. . 
I was furprifed ‘o find, fome time ago, 
in a _funmuary review (if it can be called 
a Review) of my Continuation of Vic- 
TOR’s A flory of the Theatres, that Victor 
fhould be accufed of numerous inaccura- 
cies. Cvrtainly thefe /earned gentlemen 
have miftaken CHETWoOoOD for VICTOR. 
in the Biographia Dramalica, VicTOR, 
though ridiculed for, egotiim, and fome 
particularities 1n his ftyle, is acknowledg- 
ed to be remarkably correét and exact in 
his accounts. Indeed, I fhould have 
wilhed to have been equally fo; but I 
had net the opportunities which were 
certainly open to the Prompter of a The- 
atre. {1 fhould have been happy if thefe 
learned yeviewers had notified my errors, 
as, whatever they are, I dare fay they 
criginated with the imgenious proprietors 
themfelves of that corre work, to which 
J acknowledge myfelf indebted for fome 
erroneous dates, it being a period when 
I was not in London, 
Mr. Vaughan, who favoured me with 
a note in a morning paper, fhould have 
obferved, that I did not fay the comedy 
of The Decepiion (1784) was abfolutely 
written by him, only “ aferibed to him,” 
which it hex was by thofe very pe- 
riodical writers who have remarked upon 
my inaccuracies. I fhall, however, be very 
happy, at a future opportunity, to ob- 
literate whatever is difagreeable, In- 
deed, I prefume that very few works of 
this nature are ever found faz/tlef in the 
Juft editions, Mr. Baker was obliged to 
add a very long Corrigenda to his Companion 
of the Playbouje. Mr. Malone (whom I 
re{pe¢t as a moft ingenious commentator) 
was obliged to correct fome parts of 
his Shakfpeare; and even in his late 
Jageiry, notwithftlanding the Errata no- 
Mr. Oulton on Shakjpeare, &e. 
[May 
ticed in the publication, to make other 
corrections. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, 
W.C. OULTON. 

Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
“J VERY much approve of your allotting 
a particular part of your Magazine to 
the valuable purpofes of medical. improve- 
ment ; and what has been already done, 
will, I hope, lay the foundation of a fe- 
ries of communications, from which phy- 
ficians may derive great advantage. From 
entertaining fo high an opinion of this 
part of your. Magazine, I am induced to 
offer my mite, by contributing a few re- 
marks ona difeafe, not yet. touched upon 
by your medical correfpondents, but 
which, by the time this communication 
will appear, muft be pretty weil known in 
moft families. . It is very prevalent in the 
months of June and Julv,is at the height 
in Avguft, begins to decline in Septem- 
ber, and about the end of Cétober gene- 
rally difappears, though much will depend 
upon the weather. 
I am fomewhat at a lofs to defcribe this 
diforder, becaufe being of very recent ap- 
pearance in this country, it has efcaped 
the attention cf Sauvages, Vogel, Culien, 
and all our late Nofologifts. It has fome 
fymptoms peculiar to the clafs of fevers, 
and fome to that of inflammations, but it 
is a difeafe, if I may ufe the phrafe, fo 
original, fo much. per fe, that we muft be 
content to Tet it be the root of a peculiar 
clafs, which may hereafter be divided into 
fpecies, when the faculty. fhail have made 
it more their ftudy. 
I call it,. merely for diftinétion’s fake, 
the DomipHoBia, or dread of home, 
which is the principal fymptom ; it begins, 
as I faid before, about the month of June, 
or earlier, for I have atthis moment a 
family under my care, who are dreadfully 
affli€ted with it. The mother, a remark- 
ably healthy-looking, and indeed very 
handfome woman, complains .of a 
wafting of the flefh, want of appetite, 
littlefinefs,. and dejeétion. The two 
daughters, though poffefied of the fineft 
bloom of complexion, are inclined to 
confumption, have alfo loft their appetites, 
and are, to ufe their mother’s expreflion, 
in a very alarming fituation. ‘The. fons 
have various pulmonic fymptoms, fhort- 
nefs of breath, cough, and complain that 
the {moke of London entirely diforders 
them. The hufband is the only perfon 
who has efcaped the diforder, although he 
feems 
