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With neck whofe charms might every heart 
: allall, : 
Like his who gave the bleft falute of—hail ! 
But all deform’d and brutal was the reft, 
Which clofe fhe cover’d with herample veft, 
Beneath whoie folds, prepar’d for bloody ftrife, 
Her hand for ever grafp’d a poifon’d knife. 
j Hoole. 
The deformities hidden under her long 
robe, and the poifoned knife, are emble- 
matical circumftances, which pevhaps 
render this figure more properly referable 
to the clafs of mixed perfonifications. 
T hall conclude the head of natural re- 
prefentations, by two figures in Pope’s 
: Rape of the Lock,” evidently drawn 
from the life. They are made attendants 
on the Goddefs of Spleen : 
Here ftoodInu-nature likeanancient maid, 
Fier wrinkled form in black and white array’d 5 _ 
With ftore of prayers for mornings, nights, 
+. and noons, . 
Her hand is fill’d; her bofom with lampoons. 
There arrecTaTion, witha fickly mien, 
Shews in her cheeks the rofes of eighteen; __ 
Practis’d to lifp, and hang the head afide, 
Faints into airs, and languithes with pride; 
On the rich quilt inks with becoming woe, 
Wrapt in a gown, for ficknefs, and tor thew. 
The very beautiful defcription of DIs- 
GIPLINE, in COWPER’s “* Tajk,”” book 
1. 1s fo merely that of a wife and benign- 
ant maiter of accllese, that it can fcarce- 
Ip be ranked under the head of poetic fa- 
Srications. sien eel caetelue 
; (To be continued.) 
_ To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING fearched in vain to dif- 
JL. cover, the exaét fituation of Mo- 
hoz, where Lewis II.-of Hungary and 
king of Bohemia, was flain, I flatter my- 
felf fome of your correfpendents will ta- 
vour me with its fituation, through the 
‘medium of your Magazine. 
Another place, not to be found in any 
of our popular books of geography, is 
Saltzbach, where the great ‘Turenne was 
‘eilled, . Tam yours, ~ 
 Fulya. An Admirer and confant Reader. 
; a ere Ee 
«Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
. 77 HERE is very little reafon to think 
Jl that peace.can be obtained with the 
prefent rulers of the French nation, on 
fach terms as are-comiitent with the pre- 
férvation of the liberties and independ- 
ence of this country. . It is therefore the 
Brinels ofthe Englith government to 
“would purchafe 
Land Tax, Tithes, Se. 
adopt fuch meafures for the defence of 
the kingdom, and the fupport of the na- 
tional credit, as are the leaft oppreffive 
to the fubje&, and the beft calculated to 
bring us fately through the arduous con- 
te in which we are engaged. When 
peace cannot be had but by the facrifice 
of chriftian principles and civil rights, 
war becomes juft and neceflary. 
It is fuppofed that, by the fale of the 
land-tax, a large portion of the funded 
debt of the nation wili be taken out of 
the market, which will advance the 
prices of the ftecks, and infpire the coun- 
try with an increafed confidence in go- 
vernment fecurities, and thus facilitate 
the means of borrowing money for the 
profecution of the war. But, I am afraid, 
that the inducement to purchafe the land- 
tax will not be fo operative as has been 
fuppofed, and that the icheme will fail of 
fuccefs. ; 
The land-owners, who are now poflefied 
of ftock, receive an annual intereft of firs 
or near even, per cenium on the preient 
value of it; and if they are in pofiefiion 
of money, they may receive the fame in- 
tereft on it by vefting it in ftock. By 
the purchafe of the land-tax of their 
eftates, they will receive little more than 
five per cent. intereft on their money ; and 
they may certainly expeét a new land-tax 
at no very diftant period. 
There is another impoft which is far 
more grievous to the land-owner, and 
which he would muck more readily pur- 
chafe than the land-tax: I mean TITHES,. 
This tax the land-owner would buy up 
at a much higher rate than eighteen or 
twenty years purchafe; and, by the an- 
nihilation of tithes, the agriculture of the 
nation would be relieved froma great and 
increafing burden; and the quantity of 
ftock, which woud be abforbed by the 
value of the tithes which belong to the 
church, would undoubtedly be very great. 
It may be difficult to form‘an eftimate 
of the value of the tithes in the kingdom, 
which are in ecclefiaftical hands ; but it 
is eafy to thew that the clergy would de- 
rive a great increafe of revenue from the 
fale of the tithes, if the value ef them 
were converted iuto ftock during the pre- 
fent prices of the funds. Many land- 
owners would gladly buy the tithes of their 
efates at thirty years purchafe, on a fair 
valuation of them. If, then, a clergyman 
be entitled to tithes warth rool. per an- 
num, the value of thofe tithes, at’ thirty 
years purchafe, would be 3,0001. which 
6,000]. ftock in the 3 per 
and 
cent, confol. annuities, at 501. per cent. 
es thus 
