Remarks on the Walpoliana. 
thus the income of the clergyman would be 
180]. inftead of 1001. per annum. But 
if 5 per cent. annuities were bought with 
the money, the income of the clergyman 
would be increafed ftill more. The an- 
nual value of rool. in tithes, fold at 
thirty years purchafe, and laid out in the 
5 per cent. annuities, at 751. per cent. 
would purchafe 4,000]. ftock, which 
would produce an annual income to the 
clergyman of 2001. juft double the fum 
which he now ‘Yeceives. 
I know that the clergy will be alarmed. 
by any meafure which may in any way 
affect their revenues. But by the fcheme 
which I have ftated, a great increafe of 
revenue is propofed to them, fubjeét to 
no alteration in peace or war, and as fe- 
cure as the government of the country 
can make it. 
I wifh to draw the attention of the pub- 
lic to this matter, through the medium 
of your Magazine, and I fhall be obliged 
to you for the early infertion of this let- 
ter. Iam, &c. QUZSITOR. 
June 28,1798. 
I fhall be obliged if any of your cor- 
refpondents can give me any information 
with regard to tithes in Ireland, or inform 
me of any publication in which may be 
found an account of tithes in Ireland, 
Whether they are taken in kind, &c. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE obfervations of fo ingenious and 
fo well informed a man, as Horace 
Walpole, on life and literature, are 
eertainly worthy of attention. Your 
“* Walpoliaza’’ are, therefore, curious: 
but the affertions and opinions of Mr. 
Walpole muft not always be relied on too 
implicitly. We wonder at the tafte of 
the man who was not pleafed with the ce- 
lebrated production of Cervantes; aad 
the late Earl of Orford appears to have 
been much prejudiced againft Dr. John- 
fon. Notwithftanding what Walpole {aid 
upon this fubject, I have no doubt, but 
that the reputation of Johnfon will be 
Jafting ; and, though his manners were 
often arrogant, and he had ftrone preju- 
dices, it is not juft to fay, that he hada 
bad heart. H. Walpole is fated to have 
faid, that he detefted the effays of John- 
fon; but his <* Rambler’? is certainly ‘a 
work of real and fplendid merit. Wral- 
pole alfo faid of the effays in the “ Ram- 
ler, ** They are full of what I'call trip- 
tology, or repeating the fame thing thrice 
ever, fo that three papers to the fame effegt 
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might be made out of any one paper in 
the “* Rambler.’? But if any man were to 
make the experiment, he would find that 
his affertion is totally untrue. — 
Walpole’s ideas of Burnet appear to 
have been very juft; and I think him right 
in his fentiments refpecting Mary, queen 
of Scots. The arguments brought in 
defence of that princefs will not ftand the 
teft of an accurate inveftigation, though 
a zeal for her character has occafioned the . 
moft illuftrious man that Scotland has 
produced, George Buchanan, to be treated 
with the groifeft illiberality and injuftice, 
both by Mr. Whitaker, and Mr. George 
Chalmers. . 
In one particular, the late Earl of Or. 
ford and Dr. Johnfon appeared to concur | 
in fentiments, though not in practice. His | 
lordfhip faid, ‘¢ I have always rather tri- , 
ed to e{cape the acquaintance and conver- 
fation of authors ;”’ and Johnfon once re- 
marked, that ‘* the beft thing authors 
could do, was to keep out of the way of 
one another.” f 
H. Walpole faid of Lord Anfon, that 
“he was one of the moft ftupid men he 
ever knew.’ In the account given of 
this nobleman, in the ‘* Biographia Bri- 
tannica,” the writer of that article, fpeak- 
ing of fome of his earlier naval fervices, 
fays, «* It appears, from fome criginal 
letters cf Mr. Anfon to the board of ad- 
miralty, with the fight of which we have 
been favoured, that he conduted himfelf, 
in thefe feveral employments, with an. 
ability and difcretion which gave general 
fatisfaction.’’ He was feveral years firft 
lord of the admiralty ; and it is alfo faid 
of him, in the above work, that “ his 
condutt, as firft commiflioner of the ad- 
miralty, was crowned with fuccefs, un- 
der the moft glorious adminiftration which 
this country ever faw.”? The abilities of 
Lord Anion may have been over-rated : 
but is it eredible, that this celebrated cir- 
cumnavigator was really one ef the moi 
ftupid ‘men with whom the late Earl of 
Ortord ever was acquainted ? is Dey 

ET — 

Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
I BEG leave to fubmit to your notice, ° 
the following formula, which it has 
been cuftomary tor the Druids to repeat 
at the opening and clofing of the bardie 
circles, from the feventh century, being 
the period when it was adopted, down to 
the prefent time: and it is given as one, 
out of the many proofs, of the purity of 
the principles of the Britifh bards: 
C2 Duw 
