1798.) 
Mine regiments of infantry and feven regi- 
ments of huffars, amounted at that time 
to 2,138,000 guilders (about 178,16ol. 
fterling), but is now railed to 4,395,294 
guilders (about 366,2741. fterling). The. 
whole of this contribution is paid by the 
peafants, the nobility being entirely ex- 
empt from taxes. The fum total of the 
amount of the public revenue amounts to 
fifteen millions of guilders (about 
¥,250,000l. fterling). 
In point of learning, Hungary is infe- 
rior even to Portugal. We find in 
Meufel’s Bibliotheca Hiftorta, that the lat- 
ter produced 5600 authors finee the nati- 
vity of Chrift, up to the year 1759, while 
in the fame period the learned Piarift Ho- 
rany could difcover 1153 only, through- 
out the Hungarian provinces. All Hun- 
gary contains no more than twelve book- 
feller-fhops,and thirty -fix printing offices ; 
and the number of living authers does 
not exceed fifty. N. 
I —— 
To the Editor of the Mcuthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Ede is ftated ina fhort prefatory adver- 
fifement to the letter which you have 
inferted in your Magazine for April latt, 
from Paul Jones to the countefs of Selkirk, 
that you ‘¢ are promiled fome others writ- 
ten by the fame perfon, equally, if not 
more interefting ;”’ equally they may be, 
more fo they cannot be. But, Sir,, the 
gentleman to whom yourfelf and the pub- 
hic are indebted for thefe communications 
would confer additional obligations on 
both, if he were to accompany them with 
fome teftimony of their authority. Anano- 
nymous editor of the unauthenticated ma- 
nulcripts of eminent perfonages, muft not 
expect implicit confidence ; the public has’ 
been fo frequently duped*by impofitions 
of this nature, that a neceflary and very 
laudable f{cepticifm is beginning to pre- 
vail. I do not mean to infinuate that the 
letter in your Magazine is a forgery ; I 
do not think it is: it carries an internal 
evidence of authority, which to my mind 
is quite fatisfagtory. ‘This, however may 
not be the cafe with refpeét to others, and 
as it is in the power ot your correfpon- 
dent to Communicate whatever informa- 
tion on the fubject himfelf is in poffeffion 
of, I queftion not his readine{s to do to. 
Poffibly he may be in pofieffion of futfi- 
cient documents to {ketch ** memoirs ”’ of 
the bufy and adventurous lite of John 
Paul jones ; fuch memoirs muft be highly 
acceptable, and fhould they be too copi- 
ous for your Magazine, would probably 
Doubts refpeéting Paul Fones’s Letter. 
We 
make an interefting article in the Necro- 
logy of which you have given the public 
fo animated.a profpectus. A. B.C, 
Ro cB II EE tre 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
A S there there are frequently cafes 
; trom the courts of Scotland, re- 
ported in the newipapers, in which much 
of the phrafeology is altogether unintel- 
ligible to the generality of Englith readers, 
I prefume the following GLossary¥ of 
fome of the mof common of thefe terms 
will not be unacceptable—And as the 
Monthly’Magazine has a very extenfive 
circulation in Scotland, it will be equal- 
ly gratifying to your readers of that 
country to be informed of the correfpond- 
ing Englith terms—Laftly, as there are 
a number of appeals from the Scottifh 
Courts to the Houle of Lords, thefe ex- 
planations will, I. flatter myfelf, be of 
ufe to the Englifh counfel employed in 
fuch appeals, as well as to the noble 
judges, who are often much puzzled trom 
not underitanding the legal language of 
the Scotch Laws. 
[ am, Sir, your’s, &c. J. 5B. 
Femple Street, St. George's Fields, 
24th Auguft, 1798. 
A Procefs—An. Action. 
Purfuer—Plaintiff, . 
Defender—Defendent. 
The Lord Ordinary—That. individyat 
Judge of the Court of Seffion before 
whom the a¢tion happens, in the firf 
inftance, to be brought, and. from 
whofe judgment there is an appeal te 
the whole court. 
A. Reprefentation—A Petition to the Lord 
Ordinary to review hisown judgement. 
A Condefcendence—A Particular. © 
IMemorials——Cates for the Lord Ordinary 
or for the court——-A Memorial alic 
means a Brief to couniel. 
Informatious—Cafes for the information 
of the court, when the Lord Ordinary, 
initead of giving a decjfion himfelf, re- 
ports the caufe,.on account of its in- 
tricacy er importance to the wholes 
judges. 
An Extraéi—An Office Copy. 
A. Sufpenfion—An Injunttion. 

An Advecation—An Appeal frem an in- 
i 
ferior to a fupreme court. 
Iniquity—Want of Equity, the neceflary 
ground of an Advocation. 
An Agent—An Attorney. 
A Solicitor, or Procurator—An Attorney 
before an Inferior Court. 

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