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pany compofed entirely of men (at moft 
only the lady of the houfe); eat of the 
moft exquifite difhes, drink wines ftill 
better, and converfe on politics (for as a 
ftranger is acquainted with neither the 
chronique fcandaleufe nor the bargains of 
the change, and the Amfterdamers in ge- 
neral take no pleafure in other fubjects, 
any other converfation cannot eafily take 
place)—and thus have reaped the fruits 
~ of your recommendation, except, perhaps, 
that you may once more be fed ina fimilar 
manner, OY apres 
One of the chief pleafures of the Am- 
fterdamers is to give and partake of fuch 
dinners in fele&t family parties, or to vilit 
one another to tea: but then they rarely 
invite flrangers ; who, efpecially fince the 
laft revolution, are treated with far lefs 
kindnefs and hofpitality than befere ; as 
fince that period party-fpirit rages with 
the moft abfolute fway, and has a molt 
baneful influence on the public morals, on 
the flate of fociety, and on the treatment 
of itrangers. Into whatever company you 
$0, they anxioufly endeayour to find out 
your political and religious opinions ¢ if 
they are repugnant to the principles pro- 
fefled by the company, you may be, cer- 
tain of not being again invited; on the 
contrary, you ‘will find every poffible ob- 
ftacle thrown in your way, during your 
ftay in the city. If you imagine that 
you may guard againft thefe inconvenien- 
ces by remaining filent, you would foon 
be convinced of your miftake: they would 
iNterpret your filence and your actions till 
they thought they had found out to what 
Party you belonged. This {pirit of party 
is eyery where vifible, and every where 
maintains its influence. I mylelf was 
prefent, when a cultivated and eftimable 
man was refufed admittance to the Felx 
Meritis, becaufe he was attached to the 
Orange party, and that fociety is com- 
poled of Patriots !**** 
—a : 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
AVING read, in p. 127 of your laft 
Number, a conjeCiural emendation, 
propofed by Mr. Cogan, of a, pafiage in 
the fixth book of Virgil’s:A8neid, Tiend to 
you, ag an accompaniment for it, the fol- 
Jowing remarks on the fame paflage, ex- 
trated from the ** Axzalyfis of the Hexa- 
gnetcr,? in a recent publication by Mr. Ca- 
‘ s . 4 p ’ , y—7 
rey, entitled ** Latin Profody made eafy, 
page 165. In doing this, I neither pre- 
tend to. prefer Mr. Carey’s idea to Mr. 
Cogan’s; nor Mr. Cogan’s to. Mr, Ca- 
—— 
Mr. Carey on Enejd vi sor. a —(OGtober 1, 
rey’s: my only objeét is to give your 
readers an opportunity of comiflaring the 
reafons on both fides, and judging - for 
themfelves. : 
‘¢ Demens ! qui nimbos, et non-imitabile ful- 
4 
men, f- ‘ 
4Ere et cornipedum pulfu fimularet equoe 
rum.” ” 
<¢" Simularet, which appears to be the read- 
ing of fome refpeétable MSS, is here reftored 
to its ftation, as better agreeing in tenfe with 
Ibat and Pofcebat, whether we choofe to un- 
derftand thofe verbs as implying the conffant 
Labit of tranfgreflion, or as moreover defcrib= 
ing the offender in rhe very aé of tranfgreffing 
at the moment when Jupiter checked him in 
the midft of his triumphant career by fudden- 
ly inflicting on him a public and exemplary , 
punifhment of his impiety. If Virgil had 
ufed the pluperfe& at all on this occafion, he 
would have written Simuléfet, not Simulérate 
Every fcholar knows that the fubjuntive is ° 
elegantly combined with the relative to ex= 
preis the caufe, veafon, motivemas here, * Ine 
fatuate wretch ! to atiempt mimicking,* &c.” 
Piccadilly, 1am, Sir, Yours, &es  . 
Sep.6,1800. > ~ E. W. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magaxine. 
SIR, 
S the attention of the public has” 
A of late been dircéted to the monaftie 
-eftablifhments which have ‘been tranf- 
planted into this country fince the com- 
mencement of the French Revolution, 
your readers will perhaps be gratified by. 
a fhort account of a vifit which I paid, in 
the courfe of the laft fummer, to a convent 
ofmonks of the order of La Trappe, fituated 
near Lulworth caftle, the feat of Mr. 
Weld. At eight o'clock of a pleafant 
morning, in the beginning of July, I left 
Dorchefter, in company with two other 
gentlemen, one of whom had previoufly 
vifited the monaftery, and kindly under- 
took the office of guide. After a ride of 
about eleven miles over downs covered 
with flocks of fheep, we declined on the 
right. into a fimall valley overhung with 
woods. The view at the extremity of 
this valley is beautifully terminated by 
the Englifh Channel,:and in its centre is 
fituated Lulworth-caftle, an Antique Go- 
thic edifice, confifting of four round tow- 
ers, conneCled by as many curtains. As 
firangers are permitted to fee the infide of » 
the caftle, we alighted at the principal en- 
trance, on each fide of which are two Latin 
infcriptions, the one commemorating the 
extended toleration granted to the Roman 
Catholics in 1780, the other recording a 
vifit from his prefent Majefty, with which 
Mr...” 
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