1809. | 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
|e aarawar me to propofe a correction 
of a trifling error in a paflage of Vir- 
gil. ASneid. vi. sor. 
Demens! qui nimbos et non imitabile ful- 
men 
fEre et cornipedum pulfu fimularat equo- 
rum. 
Inftead of fimularat, it fhould probably 
be fmularit. Compare a fimilar epipho- 
nema in the fecond book, v. 345. 
Infelix qui non fponfe pracepta furentis 
<Adierit*™ | 
It has often occurred to me in the 
courfe of my claffical reading, to remark 
that the elegancies of claffical phrafeology 
are not uncommonly preferved in the vul- 
garifms of the Englifh language. An in- 
ftance or two may amufe your claffical 
readers. 
The redundant pronoun is found in fuch 
expreffions as the following: ‘* That 
horfe will trot you ten miles an hour.” 
This is fomewhere obferved by Mr. Wake- 
field, in his yery learned and valuable Com- 
mentary on Matthew. 
Virg. Georg. iil. 434. 
Sevit agris, afperque fiti, atque exterritus eftu. 
In fome partsof this kingdom, country 
people will fay, that they have been much 
terrified with gnats, &c. 
Lucret, ii. 539: 
Tanta ferarum 
Vis ef, quarum nos perpauca exempla vide- 
mus. 
The good woman of whom I bought 
fruit when a child, ufed often to talk of 
there being a power of appies this fea- 
fon. 
‘© Pll comb your locks,” ‘* I'lkgive 
_you adrefling,” « I'll trim your jacket for 
you,” are threatenings, the full force of 
which is underfiood by thofe who know 
nothing of their origin. So the Greeks 
ufe in the fenfe of chattifing mAuvesy, vilesy 
ounyer, &c. Terence: v. '. 77, Adeo 
exornatum dabo, adeo depexum, ut, dum 
wivat, meminerit femper mei. To \ave 
trouble, I have borrowed thefe inftances 
from Koen ad Gregor, p. 127. Vide 
etiam Harles. ad Theocrit. v. 119. 
Chejbunt, I am, Sir, 
“Fuly 29, 1800. Your’s 
E. COGAN, 

* How it is read in other editions I know 
not; I have only thofe of Ruzus, Burmann, 
and Heyne. The manufcripts fuétuate be- 
tween fimularat, frmulabat, and fimularet. 
Monruiy Mac, No. 63. 
Ciaffical Remarks—-Spanifh Embaffy to Morocco, 
137 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the SPANISH EMBASSY feat 
to MOROCCO 77 the YEAR 1798 and 
1799. by CHR. A. FISCHER Of DRES- 
DEN. 
HE following particulars are extract- 
i ed froma manulcript Journal of the 
preceedings of the Spanifh Embafly to 
Morecco.—On- the 29th of December, 
1798, the {mall fquadron, on board of 
which the embaffador and his fuite’em- 
barked, failed from Rio de Santi Petri, 
and on the following day arrived fafe at 
Tangiers, i3 {pite of the English crutfers. 
The Spaniards were firft faluted; an ho- 
nour which a fhort time before the Englith 
had in vain endeavoured to obtain sy blu 
tering and threats. heembaffador, Don 
Juan Manuel Gonzalez Salmon, Intendente 
Lonorario de Exercito, et Caballero pehjio-. 
' gadode la Real Orden de Carlos III. is al- 
ready advantageoufly known from Olof 
Agrell’s Voyage to Morocco ; and his ta- 
Jents, his local knowledge, and the eftima- 
tion in which he was held by the Moors, 
in a particular manner pointed him out 
as the perfon beft qualified to conduct this 
difficult negotiation. He was accompanied 
by a numerous and (plendid retinue, and 
carried along with him magnificent pre- 
fents for the emperor and his minifters. - 
Nearly aforinight elapfed, while prepa- 
rations were making for their further jour- 
“ney; and in the mean time, the governor, 
and the Spanith, Danifh, and Swedith con- 
ful alternately feafted the embaffador. At 
a dinner given by the Spanith confal-gene- 
ral, D’Antenio Salmon, brother to the 
‘embaflador, an air-balloon, which he him- 
felf had made, was let off. On the balloon 
a fonnet was printed, in which, among 
other imilar exprefflions, we find thefe 
words—‘* Reuvnen en fi lo mas prregrinog,y 
los dones del Moral los mas preciofos ;" and 
it concludes with—-‘* Su gente grita ena- 
morada: nunca Soliman muera! Carlos 
viva }’=—-In the evening the Conful’s 
houfe was illuminated, and tranfparencies 
with fim:lar verfes, &c. were exhibited. 
Thefe circumftances feem trifling: fome 
important concluftioas may however be 
drawn from them. 
At length, on the 27th of January, the 
Embafly fet forward for Mequinez, ef- 
corted by 300 horfemen. They performed 
very fhort journeys, and were every where 
received with’ marks of honour and re- 
{océt. The Muors in general feemed fa. 
tisfied with the Spaniards; the embaffa- 
dor, for inftance, ordered his hautboitts to. 
play during the folemn vifits paid him by 
eo the. 
