1800. ] 
sers, while the monks and the Chinefe 
have free accefs to them without infpiring 
any more anger than eunuchs would do; 
though it often happens that thefe pious 
confidants reap pleafing fruits from this 
pacts and {port with matrimonial cre- 
dulity. 
fs Portuguefe kills, either by defign 
or by accident, a Chinefe, he is put to 
death. A foldier of the garrifon ef Macao 
was ftrangled, according toa fentence of 
the Chinefe law, for having while he was 
going his rounds in the night, conform- 
ably to the commands of his officer, 
wounded a Chinefe, whom he found break- 
ing into a houfe to rob it; this Chinefe 
died of his wounds; the mandarines im- 
mediately demanded the foldicr; the fe- 
nate, ftruck with horror at this ftep, wifked 
to refift it; but at length, intimidated by 
the menaces of the mandarines, they deli- 
‘vered up the viétim, who expired under 
the hands of the executioner, in the fame 
place in which he had given fuch a dan- 
gerous proof of the love of his duty. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I WOULD thank any of your Corre- 
fpondents who would have the goodrfefs 
<o inform me where can be found the Ro- 
ficrutian Doétrine of Gnomes, Sylphs, &c. 
at length. Hitherto Ihave not met with 
any one who could give me any further in- 
formation concerning it than that with 
which every one is familiar : and I with to 
know more. i fhould like to know, 
likewife, where an hiftorical account of 
the Arabians and Mahometans, during 
the eleventh century, can be found. 
Your’s, &c. 
AN ocCasIoNAL CONTRIBUTOR. 
Tune, oth, 1800. 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I WAS much furprifed to fee your Cor- 
refpondent, ‘* Entologus,” fo confi- 
dently affert, ‘* that the earwig is falfely 
accufed of injuring mankind by entering 
the ear, which” he adds, ** it has neither 
the power nor the inclination te perpetrate.” 
- How far it may have the inclination. I 
I mutt wave; but that it has the power, 
the following circumftance leaves me in no 
manner of doubt. 
A gentleman of my acquaintance (and 
with whom I refided at the time) employed 
feveral men to get ina ftack of peas, when, 
foon after they had begun, one of them 
came running in the greatef agony, and 
inthe moft frantic manner crying out, “ he 
was fure an earwig had got into his ear.’ 
Gnomes and Sylphs.—Earwigs.—Fews. 
1} 
I never faw any poor creature in fuch a 
ftate of torment and excruciating pain, 
until, after the application (by pouring it 
into the ear) of Maderia wine, the earwig 
crawled out, to the no (mall joy of the 
fufferer, and diverfion of his companions 
who had literally concluded ‘the fellow 
was crazy.” 
He fays the fenfations where moft {e- 
vere, as his looks and geftures evidently 
confirmed. 
I fuppofe brandy would have been pre- 
ferable to wine; but there was none at: 
hand, and the poor man’s condition made ; 
fome immediate remedy neceflary. 
Lam, refpe&fully, your 
CowsTanT READER. 
Ipfwich, Fune 5, 1800. 
———— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazifte. 
SIR, 
WISH to be informed, through the 
medium of your ufeful and intelligent 
Magazine, what is the creed of the Jews, 
re{peGing the immortality of the foul, 
and the rewards and punifhments of a fu- 
ture ftate, and from whence they obtained 
that belief; — the Mofaic difpenfation 
promifing nothing further than thofe ofa 
temporal nature. 
June 21, 1800. A CORRESPONDENT. 

For the Monthly Magazine. * 
JOURNAL written during a hafly RAMBLE 
to the LAKES. 
¢¢ Surely there is a hidden power that reigns 
>Mid the lone majefty of untam’d nature, 
Controlling fober reafon.” 
The very ample and interefting defcriptions 
of the charming fcenery of Weftmorland and 
Cumberland which the public have been 
favoured with, obliges me to offer the fol- 
lowing very imperfect fketch with difk- 
dence and apprehenfion, But as thofe ace 
counts have been prefented in a form not 
calculated to meet every eye, it has been 
fuggefted, that to many of the readers of 
your widely circulated Magazine, the Jour- 
nal of a hafty traveller over part of that 
lovely region might not (defective as it is} 
be altogether uninterefting. To gratify pro- 
found criticifm, or toregale refined tafte, is 
not the privilege of its author. But there 
are fome who feel without deing faftidious, 
and who, amidft the buftle, the cares, or 
the forrows of life, are glad to be led to 
{fcenes of beauty and of peace, though not 
traced by the pen of a Gilpin or a Radcliffe. 
Should thefe he gratified, or fhould any be 
led to contemplate with more attention the 
bock of nature, that ‘* boundlefs work of 
God,”’ the journalift will be amply repaid. 
UGUST 4th, 1796, left Lancafter. 
At Heft-bank we joined the poit- 
man, and entered on an immenfe traét of 
Cz fand, 

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