¥800.] 
being foon obviated; application being at 
prefent making to parliament for a bill to 
authorize the opening of two new ftreets ; 
the one as an entry from the fouth, and 
the other as one from the north. ‘It js fin- 
cerely to be wifhed that this plan may be 
carried into effect, notwithitanding any op- 
pofition made to it by a few who may be 
interefted in‘its obftruction, by others who 
‘may be willing to adopt no plans but their 
own,or by thofellefs blameable citizens who 
feem frightened at its aovelty and extent. 
Although paying little regard to the 
fublime doétrines of univerfal patriotifm 
and benevolence, the Aberdonians are al- 
lowed to be very compaffionate to objects 
of diftrefs immediately under. their eye; 
and their humanity has been’ of late but 
‘too frequently called upon. . The tremen- 
dous ftorms in the beginning of this year 
deprived them of ninety of their feamen. 
A confiderable fum was very foon collected, 
both here and at London, by the benevolent 
exertions of a townfman eftablifhed there, 
for the relief of the widows and children of 
the fufferers. 
having drawn their attention to the pre- 
fervation of fhipwrecked mariners, fub- 
{criptions are going on for building a life- 
boat. During the feverity of winter, coals 
rare generally diftributed gratis to the poor; 
and, by the fpirited efforts of a few indi- 
‘viduals, a public kitchen has been re- 
cently eftablifhed. There are alfo a num- 
_ ber of friendly focieties for the benefit of 
fick and decayed members. pte 
Loyalty reigns in Aberdeen with undif- 
puted fway. Not fewer than a thoufand in- 
habitants of the town and fuburbs-are train- 
ed to arms, forthe maintaining good order 
at home,and repelling invafion from abroad. 
Old Aberdeen is chiefly fupported by 
its univerfity, having little or no trade. 
There is, however, a fmall but very 
agreeable fociety to be found in it, con- 
filting of the profeffors of King’s College, 
‘and their relatives, and a few families in 
genteel or eafy circumftances, who have 
retired from the bu@le of the new town. 
March.3, 1800. A.B, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
BEG permiffion to add a few remarks 
to the notice inferted in your laft num- 
ber, refpeéting Citizen Turpin, who lately 
died at Paris, at a very advanced age. 
His name was Francots ‘Turpin; he was 
a man of éxtenfive knowledge, held for- 
merly a profeflorfhip at Caen, and enjoyed 
the latter years of his life a penfion of 3000 
livres, by virtueof a decree of the Na- 
tional Convention of the 3d January, 1795. 
Account of Citizen Turpin 
This dreadful calamity 
- earlieft edition. 
aig - 
The two works you mention, are neithes 
his only nor his»beft literary productions ; 
he publifhed in 1767, a well written life of 
the Prince of Condé, under the title ze de 
Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, 2 vol, . 
y2m0.—in 1771, a good hiftorical work 
entitled Hiffoire civile et naturelle du Roy. 
aume de Siam, et des Revolutions qui ont 
borlever fe cet empire jufque’ez 1770, 2 vol. 
42m0.—in 1773, another biographical - 
work of fome merit, under the title Hz/- 
toire de la Vie de Mahomet, Legiflateur de 
I’ Arabie, 2 vol. 12mo. followed in 1775 
by Hiffoire de? Alcoran, in 2 vol. 12mo. 
wherein he developes with great ingenuity 
and much erudition, the political fyitem of 
Mohamed, and the fources from which he 
drew the leading principles of his legifla- 
tion. In 1775 he publifhed the fir vo- 
lume of his Plutarque Frangois, &e. the 
fourth and laft volume of which appeared ia 
172; and he clofed his literary career with 
his wellknown fiftoire des hommes publics 
tires du tiers état, avec un difcours fur les 
avantages et les abus de la Nobleff2, which 
was publifhed in 1789, in 2 vol. 8ve. 
The titles of the works you cite, are as 
follow, Hiffoire du Gouvernement des an- 
ciennes Républiques, on Vom decouure les 
caufes de leur elevation et de leur deperiffe- 
ment, 1769, 4. vol. 12mo. and Hiffoire des 
Rewolutions d Angleterre, pour fervir de 
fuite a cette du’ P. dCrleans, 1736, 
vol. 8vo. Tam, Sit, occ. &c. : 
Lower Clapion. H. Neuman. 
' ax 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, i“ 
7 OUR readers are under many obliga- 
tions to I’. J, for his Analyfis of the 
Romance of Huon de Bourdeaux, in p. 136 
of the laft Number of your Magazine, 
which will enable *them to afcertain the 
ufe that has been made of i€ by Wieland, 
in his elegant poem of Oberon. Will you 
allow me to add a few particulars on the 
fubject ? ee 
There is an edition of Huon de Bour- 
deaux, in black letter, without date, place, 
or printer’s name, in folio. From the 
type it appears to have been printed foon 
alter 4500, and this 1s moft probably the 
I am fortunate enough to 
poffefs a copy of it, ) 
Another edition was printedat Paris, 
by Le Noir, 1516, folio, 
A third, at Paris, no date, by the wi- 
dow of J. Trepperel. Quarto. Black letter. 
A fourth, at Rouen, no date, by Ro- 
main de Beauvais, 8vo. 
A fifth, ac Rouen, no date, by the 
widow of Louys Cofté, 8yo; allo in my 
pofleffion, 
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