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to two thoufand pounds, which will leave 
a furplus of upwards of five hundred 
pounds: and as it is intended that the firft 
year’s annual fubfcription fhould be paid 
in advance on opening the room, a fum of 
one thoufand pounds may thus be applied 
in the immediate purchafe of books. The 
annual income, amounting to five hundred 
guineas, together with the addition of the 
contingent rents of the fhops and cellars, 
which cannot fail to be let to advantage, 
is propofed to be expended in the follow- 
ing manner. After the neceflary expenfes 
of the inftitution are paid, a fum, not ex- 
ceeding one third of the net income, fhall 
be annually laid out in the purchafe of 
News-Papers, Magazinés, Reviews, and 
Pamphlets; of the remainder of the an- 
nual income, a part, not exceeding one 
third, fhall be applied to the purchafe of 
books in the French, Italian, German, 
Latin, and Greek languages; and the 
balance to be expended in purchafing books 
in our own language. 
Liverpool, Nowember 27,1797 
ee 
| To the Editor of the Monthly Magazime. 
SIR, i 
N anfwer to the inquiry of your cor- 
re(pondent IT. T. in your Magazine 
for this month of the belt method of 
taking greafe {pots out of leather breeches, 
I beg to acquaint him, that the white of 
an egg, applied tothe injured part, and 
dried in the fun, will ¢ffectually anfwer 
his withes. 
Oxferd-fireet, Fuly 4, 1799+ Q. Q. 
Se 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 2 
a ae obferved, in the Monthly 
i ‘Magazine for this month, a letter 
trom one who wilhes to be intormed of 
the method of taking greafe {pots out of 
lather breeches ; for the good of the com- 
munity in general, I make known the tol- 
lowing receipt (which I have often tried 
with fuccefs) through the medium of 
your ufeful Magazine, viz. to two table- 
tpoontuls of fpirits of turpentine, put half 
an ounce of mealy potatoes, te which add 
fome of the beft Durham muftard, rub 
thele on the part greafed : and when it is 
dry and taken off again, the {pot will be 
entirely removed. Shou'd this not prove 
quite eficacious, (though T have feldom 
known it fail), add a little vinegar, which 
will effeétually.do the bufinels. 
I am, Sir, your meft obedient Servant, 
— Joun MEDLEY. 
Old Sanctuary, Weftminfitr, ~~ 7" 
Ju 125 T7995 2s 
Mr. Tatham on the Altieri Claudes. 
[ Aucuf, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
Copy of a Letter from Mr. TatTuam 
to Mr. TResHamM, refpecting the 
Ciaupes lately purchafed by Mp. 
BECKFORD». «45 0% 
ITH regard to the paragraph 
which appeared in a morning 
paper of Tuefday laft, intimating that the 
two Claudes lately purchafed by you for 
Mr. Beckford, were offered to me when 
at Rome, by the prince Altieri,—I take 
the liberty of ftating to you (and, if you 
think proper, have no objection to fiate 
more particularly to the public) the cir-. 
cumftances which induced me at that time 
to decline an offer fo very flattering to 
myfelf, and the acceptance of which would 
fooner have put my own country in pof. 
feffion of thofe incomparable pieces. 
From the time I was firlt introduced to 
the prince Altieri €about five months af. 
ter my arrival at Rome) he honoured me 
with the moft obliging and continued 
marks of attention. Toward the middie 
of the year 1796, the capture of Mantua 
by the French was confidered at Rome as 
an event impoffible to be avoided—and the 
effects it would neceffarily have on that re- 
pofitory of art and genius were already 
felt in anticipation by the proprietors of 
every muleum there. One morning, 
while I was walking with the junior 
prince round his galleries, and talking 
over the calamitous: events which were 
likely to take place—he conduéted me ta 
the Claudes, and faid, both his father and 
himfelf were now fully perfuaded they 
could not preferve thofe pieces long, as the 
French would certainly come and ftrip 
Rome of every valuable production of art 
they could poflibly remove ; and therefore, | 
if I chofe to purchafe them, I fhould have 
the preference to any other perfon. .I re- 
volved in my mind the ftate of things at 
that time, and the circumitances under 
which I ftood; and although I felt, and as 
long as I live fhall continue to feel, the 
deepeft obligation to the prince for fo dif 
tinguifhed a mark of his regard, and was 
xtremely defirous my own country fhould 
be enriched with {uch a treafure; I found 
I could not then accept the offer, without 
making the moft imprudent rifk of lofing 
them, and perhaps expofing them to ablo- 
lute deftruction. I had already, at the de- 
fire and through the affiftance of Mr. 
Holland, made a collection of antique frag- 
ments, and cafts of ornamental architec- 
ture, to a very confiderable amount, which 
the fituation of .public affairs rendered it 
yery dificult tor me to convey ae 
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