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1860. ] 
at the Palais Royal, on the 14th of March 
1738, to fee him on the point of being 
eclipfed. 
Obfervations of Jupiter have proved 
- that about 30” are to be added to the 
‘Tables, which fhews that we ought to 
make a little addition to the mean motion : 
this I before proved in difcufling the.an- 
cient obfervations in the Almageft of Pto- 
lemy. The oppofition of the 16th De- 
cember 1799, gave me 30 feconds. C. 
Quenot, an able navigator, who has re- 
gurned from Egypt, obferved it with an 
aftronomical circle, and obtained the fame 
refult. The latitude alfo was found too 
fmall by 15’; from’ which I conclude, 
that the longitude of the node of Jupiter, 
which is in the Tables of Delambre, in the 
third edition of my Aftronomy, ought t 
bbe diminifhed 10’. " 
( To be concluded in our next. ) 
{The two interefting letters which follow, 
came to hand too late to be inferted among 
the other articles of correfpondences The 
explanation from Mr.Souraty, we could 
not with propriety delay, in juttice to the 
benevolent objeét which itis intended to 
promote. The other from Mr, Titsincu, 
the late Dutch ambaflador at the Court of 
Pekin, refers to an article in the former 
part of this Number, which we had the 
epportunity of fubmitting to him previ- 
oufly to its publication, but not till after 
it had been worked off at prefs. } 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE Rev. Sir Hereert Crorr has 
replied in 2he Gentleman's Maga- 
zine for February, to my ftatement of his 
conduct towards the famuy of Chatterton. 
That ftatement, it appears, was inaccu- 
rate, in fuppofing him to have been in or- 
dersin 1778. In no other part does it 
require correftion. Sir Herbert does not 
deny that he promifed to return the letters 
#n an hour, when he borrowed ihew, nor 
that he publifhed them without the kwaw- 
ledge of the family, for bis own emolument. 
' How tar the publication, entitled Love 
and Madnefs, was indebted to thefe let~ 
ters for its value, its popularity, and its 
fale, the public can judge. Sir Herbert 
does not deny his promifes to the family 
of after affifiance, nor that, when Mrs. 
Newton applied for it, be required a certi- 
Jicate of ber charatter from the clergyman 
of the parifh. 
To the perfonalities contained in Sir 
Herbert's letter, I make no reply, thefe 
things do not concern the public. Sir 
Herbert may ftill date his letters from Den- 
mark, and tomplain of my attacking him 
Mr. Southey to Sir Herbert Croft—-Mr. Titfingh. 
253 
during amorth-eaft wind; it is not my 
bufinefs to correct thefe mis-{tatements. 
But as he has endeavoured to injure the 
propofed publication, by declaiming againit 
the principles, real and imputed, of the 
editor. I wilinot let pafs the opportunity 
of requefting, that party prejudices may 
not injure a work defigned to beuefit the 
family of Chatterton. The fiffer of Chat- 
tertou fupports bherfelf by teaching children 
toread ; foe is advancing in years, and ber 
fight begins to fail. Should the fubfcrip- 
tion for his works beextenfive, it will ren- 
der her old age comfortable, and provide 
for her child. 
Sir Herbert intimates that my object is 
to profit by the fubfcription ;—the lift of 
the fubfcribers fhall be publifhed, and the 
accounts. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
~~ Brifjol, March eo. 
—at a 
Zo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
RETURN you many thanks for the 
Jk. fheets of the next Number of your 
Magazine, containing atranflation of what 
occurs in the Geographical Ephemerides 
publifhed at Gotha, by Major von Zach, 
from Charpentier’s Voyage to Bengal, in 
1789, trefpecting fuch information about 
Japan as adeceafed friend had communi- 
cated to him, as coming from me. 
In perufing the contents, I could not 
but regret the impropriety of fuch a com- 
munication, —a texture of inaccuracies, 
mifreprefentation, and untruth. ‘Though 
T cannot recolleét any particular con- 
nexion with the author, it certainly is evi- 
dent by the whole, that I muft have been 
acquainted with him. That people fhould 
be anxious for fome further knowledge 
than what is given by Kaempher and Pro- 
feflor Thunberg, about a country with 
which Europeans have fo little intercourfe 
is commendable ; but it is abfurd that'a 
perfon who has only heard a random con- 
verfation on a fubject he is utterly unac- 
quainted with, fhould préfume to write 
down as reai facts, what his memory or 
fancy may afterwards fuggeft to him. 
The kindnefs of my friends in provid- 
ing me with fuch books as were deemed 
the moft recommendable, on different fub- 
jects, afforded me the opportunity duri 
my refidence in Japan, of tranflating them, 
with the affiftance of our intrepreter. 
Thefe tranfldtions, and the information 
obtained from creditable and refpected 
characters, form the materials of my cole- 
leftion. i 
I will not deny a ftrong predileGtion ; 
for Japan: this feems a natural propenfi- 
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