82% Enquiry after A. Cunningham— Prefervation of Books. (Nov. 1, 
If there are any of your readers who 
have been witnefs to fear or grief having 
this effeét, or can affign any probable rea- 
fon why they produce this phenomenon, 
their infermation, through the fame me- 
dium, will be confidered as a particular 
obligation. It is well known that grief, 
fear, furprize, rage, &c. when violent, 
affect the hair; but whence that partial 
change of colour, and in the two firft in- 
ftances only (for I never heard that fur- 
prize or rage ever caufed it), is what I can- 
mot at prejent account for. Until I am 
more convinced of the truth of this, I fhall 
think it wrong to conclude, that prema- 
ture grey ha‘rs are an indicaticn of their 
~pofleflors being either more (ufceptible of 
thofe paffions, or that they have unforta- 
nately experienced more circumfances that 
give rife to them, than any other perfons, 
Hinckley, Sept. 6, 1800. jee aAye. 
ma 
To the Eaitor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Ae your Magazine has fuch an exten- 
ya five circulation, more efpectally 
among what are denominated les hommes 
libres, Y make no doubt but fome of them 
will embrace the oppo:tunity your Maga- 
zine offers.to throw fome light on the fub- 
je&t of the life of our efteemed hiftorian, 
Alex. Cunningham, which fiill remains 
involved in a mift, and which it would be 
defirable fhould be cleared up. 
In the firft place, allow me to inquire, 
has any light been thrown on the queition, 
whether this learned man was the author 
of the Notes on Horace, and Commenta- 
ries on Virgil, the latter of which was 
publifhed in 1742, at Edinburgh. | On 
this fubjeét, Dr. Watkins, in his “ Bio- 
graphical and Hiftcrical Diétionary,”’ has 
not hefitated to fay, ‘* There was azother 
Alexander Cunningham, who publifhed 
an edition of Horace at the Hague, in 
2 vols. 8vo. 1721, which is held in great 
efreem.”” 
Now, Sir, as the communications to 
your Magazine trom Dr. Watkins’s pen, 
and his late very excellent Dictionary, have 
fhewn what vaft biographical knowledge 
he poffeifes, I hope he may be induced to 
favour the public with his ebfervations on 
this delicate fubje&t, rnore efpecially as 
Dr. Thompion has beflowed great labour 
and pains to fhew they were one and the 
fame perfon; and indeed it would bea 
mof aftonifhing circumftance if there 
fhould be at the fame time, two perfons of 
the fame name, born in the fame-country, 
sontemporaries, both at the Hague, with 
the fame connections both living to an 
old age, both fkilled in the game of chefs, 
aud both whigs!!! 
Certainly this is a fubje& that cannot 
fail to be interefting to your readers ;-and 
if thefe few obfervations fhouid be deemed 
wortby a place in the Monthly Magazine, 
I make no doubt they will excite atten- 
tiow, and you would much oblige 
Your's, 
London, Aug. 16. R j-Bxf. 
FETE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ELIEVING the following wili add 
to the curiofity of the fpecimens of 
the Lord’s Prayer in an hundred lancuages, 
though it is only a copy from a German 
Ch onicle of the Paternofter as fiid and 
written in the reign of Charlemagne, and 
alfo furnifh etymologifts with leme f{pecu- 
lation, it is at your fervice. 
Yours, 
SaUTOR- 
Fatter unfer du im himmle bi%, dien namo 
werde geheiligot. Din riche chome—Din 
willo gefchene in Erdo, alfo im Himmle. 
Unfer taglicbe Brodt kib uns heuto. Umde 
unfer {chulda beladzuns, als auch wir belafent 
unferen {childigiren, und im Chorunga nit 
lJeyteft du unfich nun belofe um fich voa 
ubele. Am. 
eR a 
To the Ediior of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the purchafe of books, it has more 
1 than once happened that I have been 
obliged to content mylelf with the leav- 
ings of the moths, whofe devaftations had 
cheapened for me fome valuable volume 
which otherwife wou'd have exceeded the 
reach of my purfe. Although on fuch oc- 
cafions I was glad, fo far as concerned 
myfelf alone, of the mifchief they had 
done, yet I could not forbear regretting; 
for the fake of the community at lage, 
that no effeiual mode had been adopted 
for banifhing them from libraries. . OF 
thefe, the moft extenfive and valuable are 
the moft expofed to the ravages of the 
moths, as containing a greater number of 
uncommon books which are feldom taken 
from the fhelves by any perfon, whofe 
handling might diflodge or difturb the de- 
vouring infects. But exclufive of the 
greater or lefler number of volumes, I 
conceive the libraries of rich men to be 
more expofed to that peft, from the man- 
ner in which they are fitted up and deco- 
rated, than thofe of lefs opulent indivi- 
duals. In the former, the fhe!ves are fre- 
quently covered with woollen cloth, which 
affords a convenient harbour and breeding 
place 
