1798. ] 
which was deftroyed by an accidental fire 
on the 297th of February, 1792, and 
which ftood upon the fame fite. 
Dublin Caftle, the feat of the refident 
Lord Lieutenant, isa very handfome and 
commodious palece. Its beauty, how- 
ever, has been much injured by the pre- 
fent Marquis of Buckingham, both ex- 
ternally and internally ; externally, by 
ftopping up a very chafte and light ar- 
cade in the principal front, when he was 
there in 1783 as Earl Temple, which 
now has an cdious appearance, and is, at 
the fame time, rendered totally ufelefs 5 
and internally, when he was Lord Lieu- 
tenant there in 1788, by converting a 
magnificent hall at the top of the great 
ftair-cafe, at that time called the Mattle- 
axe Guard-hall, intoa prefence chamter. 
This apartment is totally unneceffary, as 
prior to this there was a molt excellent 
one ; and inftead of the former grand en- 
trance, you muft now pats through a 
lobby which was before merely the Jand- 
ing (asit is called in architecture) of tne 
great ftair-cafe, which at prefent refem- 
bles the confined lobby of a decent prifon. 
He has, indeed, caufed fome allegorical 
pictures to be placed in the cieling of the 
ball-rooms This room, in honour of the 
order of knighthood of St. Patrick, and in 
which upon that day, viz. the 17:h of 
March, 1783, the knights of that order 
dined; has been called, fince the firft in- 
ftallation, St. Patrick’s Hall. The muta- 
bility of public favour was, perhaps, 
never more predominant than in the two 
periods of thar nobleman’s adminiftration 
in Ireland. For in the year 1783, when 
he refided there as Earl ‘Temple, he ren- 
dered himfelf the idol of the Irifh nation; 
but in the years 1788-9,-when he was 
there as Marquis of Buckingham, he be- 
came to the fame people progreifively ob- 
noxious ; privately quitted the kingdom, 
from a {mall fea hathing place near Dub- 
lin, called the Black Rock, and carried 
with him the cenfure of the Irith Houfe 
of Commons, which record remains upon 
the Journals of that Houfe to this very 
hour. 
[To be continuca.] 
| EES 
To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
, SIR, 
your correfpondent, H. M. (page 
193, of a late Magazine) afferts, 
that 
Vir, precor, uxori, frater, fucurre, forari, 
when read according to the doctrine of 
Metronarifion defended. 
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Mekerchus, is not a rhyming hexarneter. 
It is not only rhyming, but doubly rhym- 
ing: as perfeétly fo, as 
Suadendo ftultis oleum difperdere vultis F 
‘or any other leonine verfe. But having 
learned, it fhould feem, from the profodi- 
cal differtation to which he infers, that 
the two laft fyllables of mwrorz form a 
{fpondee ; and continuing in his vicious 
habit of reading as a trochee the two laft 
fyllables of /orort, which form a {pondee 
alfo, himfelf viciates the rhyme. And if 
he had nor read with great inattention, 
he would have feen, that (direétly con- 
trary to his affertion !) the detaching or 
feparating, in pronunciation, any fylla- 
ble from a word, is difapproved : and 
that even in the fcanning, according to 
the method there recommended, the 
very fyllable he mentions, the laft in 
uxori, would not be feparated from the 
preceding {yllable. | 
As to the ‘* Formal Attack,” which 
H. M. fcems to threaten, it had need ta 
be conduéted with confiderable fk)il and. 
power, if he hopes with any effeét to 
counteract the public approbation which 
the revived doétrine of: Mekerchus has 
obtained, and to diflodge it from the 
ftrong-hold it occupies, in the counte- 
nance already given to it by one of the 
firft, if not the firft, of the fchools of re- 
putation in the kingdom. ; 
Were it not befide the queftion, a good 
defence might be made for the rhymes, 
though nothing can be faid for the fiyle, 
of the trochaic couplet, by (as, H. M. 
properly expreffes himfelf) a qortby fa- 
bricator of birth-day odes; for no one 
ought te be able to write in a better ftyle 
who would accept an office fo degrading 
, letters as a laureatefhip—wortbily refuled 
by that fterling poet who has fo elegantly 
taught, that 
Virtue’s an ingot of Peruvian gold, 
Senfe the bright ore Potofi’s mines unfold 3 
But Temfer’s image mut their ufe create, 
And give thefe precious metals fterling weight. 
aia am, &c. WS: 
[* When in our laft we announced our ine 
tention to difcontsnuc the contioverfy on the 
fubject of Metronariftur, one fhurt letter, 
heie inferted, had etcaped our notice. For 
the fake ot the two pieces of informa- 
tiomswkich it contains, we now give it place. 
—Epirors.] 
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