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have made but little ufe of it for that rea- 
fon, and becaufe the quantity of meal 
ground in a given time, I think, does not 
recompence the labour required to produce 
it; and I do not believe that any faving is 
made from ufing machines for this purpofe 
on fo fmalla conftruction. Tremain, very 
relpectfully, Sir, 
Your moft obedient fervant, 
Exeter, Feb. 8, 1800. M. B. 
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To the Editor of the Mouthly Magazine. 
SIR, | 
HE reinvention of the Telegraph is 
claimed in your magazine for De- 
cember, by Don Salvador Ximenes Coro- 
nado, who tried experiments on this fub- 
ject in 1786. In a former number the 
revival of the telegraph is attributed to 
Citizen Chappe. Whoever will take the 
trouble of looking into the Memoirs of the 
Royal Irifh Academy for the year 31796, 
will find that Mr. Edgeworth revived the 
invention of telegraphic correfpondence in 
Berkfhire, fo long ago as the year 1767. 
In the fame paper it is recorded that in- 
telligence was conveyed by Mr. Edge- 
worth’s telegraph acrofs the fea from Ire- 
Jand to England and back again in July 
1796. With telegraphs of the common 
conftruction this could not be effected. 
‘The portable telegraph that folds up like 
an umbrella, is de{cribed in the fame pa- 
er. | 
This is a fimple invention, which at fome 
time or other will force itfelf into common 
vie. Your confiant reader, 
Dec. 45 1799+ 
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Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N anfwer to your Correfpondent Alla- 
_ filius ; Vol. vill. page 365, who in- 
quires for an account of St. Rombald, I 
fend you the foliowing. 
Si. Romuld, commonly St. Rombauld 
or Romuldus, patron of the church of 
Mechlin, was a zealous Angio-Saxen, 
who, in the eighth century quitted his cell 
to preach the Gofpel in the unconverted 
parts of Europe. He laboured with St. 
Willibrord and many other pious miffion- 
aries in this good work, and was confe- 
crated an’ itinerant bithop, that is, one 
who has not a fixed diocefe. He converted 
great numbers of heathens in the vicinity 
of Mechlinand Antwerp; and died a mar- 
tyr to his zeal, June 24th, 775. His 
body was thrown into the river, but was 
refeued from thence, and honourabiy in- 
terred by the Count of Adon, ‘The prin- 
Justus. 
St. Rombald—Origin of the Fable of Oberon. 
‘ot Clugny travel toward Paris. 
[March 1$ 
cipal actions of his life are reprefented in 
fome fine pictures in the cathedral church 
of Mechlin. Iam, &c. 
Loudon, Feb. 7, 1800. . J. WaTKINS. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
OUR correlpondent H. C.R. defires 
fome account of the old romance 
whence the fable of Wieland’s Oberon isin’ 
great part derived ; happening to poffefs it, 
i haften to comply with the requeft. Allow 
me in my turn to exorefs a with that who- 
ever has accefs to any one of the old ro- 
mances of chivalry, would furnith fome fuch 
analyfis of it as Percy has given of Li beax 
difcommu, in the third volume of the Reliques, 
p- 28. This might direé&t the attention of 
rifing poets to the traditional achievements 
of our own heroic ages, and prepare perhaps 
the platform of fome truly national epopoea. 
_The title of the romance in queftion is, 
Fiifisire de Huon de Bordeaux, Pair de 
France, Duc de Guienne : it is printed at 
Troyes, but uncated.. From the permif- 
fion appended, fome copies were probably 
iffued in 1723, and fome others in 17265 
it is therefore a recent republication of the 
old romance, which was no doubt printed 
in Gothic or black letters, before the year 
1550, as the annotators of Shakefpeare 
mention an Englifh tranflation of it exe- 
cuted by Lord or Lady Berners, in the 
reign of Henry VIIT. Not only the type, 
the {peiling alfo has been modernized.. 
The introduétion places the event to 
be narrated in the year of the crucifixion 
756, and under ‘* the very glorious and 
victorious. Prince Charles the Great fur- 
nommée Charlemagne, and after the death 
ot his nephews Roland and Olivier. The 
firft chapter defcribes Charles as defirous 
of refigning his cgown, not to Louis 
«© who is too young”” but to Charlot who 
had killed Baldwin the fon of Oger le Da- 
nois. II. Amaury, the friend of Charlot 
recommends to the emperor to feize the 
eftate of the late Sevin, Duke of Bor- 
deanx, to the prejudice of his minor fons, 
Huon and Gerard, and to endow Charlot 
with it. ‘IE. The Duke of Naimes 
having diffuaded this conifcation, obtains 
Jeave to fend for the two fons of Sevin to 
ferve Charles, IV. The duchefs . pro- 
mifes to fend her two fons the enfuing 
Falter. WV. Amaury and Charlot plot 
the affaiiination of thefe fons. VI. The 
fons of Sevin, in company with the Abbé 
j VI. 
Amaury and Charlot waylay the young 
men: Amaury wounds Gerard; and 
Charlot is killed by Huon. VIII. Huon 
ariives 
