590 AL Bottiger’s Letter in reply to Moffrs. Barruel and Robifon. [Sept. 
forhim, who, by his inquifitionary proceed - 
ings, with the help of his emiffaries, may 
follow every fcent, and hunt down the re- 
putation of any literary character in our 
parts of Germany, at the diftance of four 
hundred miles from Great Britain. 
Tt would be an eafy tafk, indeed, to add 
many inftances of fimilar aflertions in a 
book full of the grofieft mifreprefentations 
and palpable falfehoods. But that will 
be done otherwife. There is one inftance 
more, which I cannot pafs over in filence, 
as it is very injurious to my honour and 
veracity. I ftated in a fhort notice, in- 
ferted in your valuable Magazine (January 
3798), that Mr. Bode was author himlelf 
of a pamphlet ftyled ** More Notes than 
ext,’ in which he laid open the feheme 
of the famous Mr. Barth’s German Union. 
You can eafily imagine, Sir, whether I was 
to be credited, being an intimate acquain- 
_ tance of the. author, and entrufted, with 
the original papers, which I offered to fhew 
to any body. But the. much better in- 
formed Mr. Barruel treats me with the 
utmoft fcorn, (tom. iv. p. 310), and, in 
order to cloak his falfehood, he tells us, 
that Mr.Gofchen, the bookfeller, at Leip- 
fic, has declared himfelf author of that 
performance. Now, for all this, I beg 
leave, Sir, to tranfmit Mr. Gofchen’s de 
claration, which he fent me in order to 
be communicated to you. 
«¢ The late Mr. Bode, Privy Counfellor at 
Weimar, isauthor of the work called ¢ More 
Notes than Text,’ by which the Union of 
Mr.’Barth has been detected and blown up. 
J have not the leaft fhare in the whole per- 
formance, except fome tew lines I added after 
the Preface. : 
*©GrorGEe JoacHiM GoscHuEN.” 
Leipfic, Fuly 16. 
And what can the honeft Mr. Barruel- 
do, inorder to make good his affertion ? 
Will he face it out, and deny the truth of 
this declaration alfo? I dare fay, he will. 
Tt will only ferve to fwell the bulk of his 
Memoirs, and afford him frefh matter for 
abufe and defamation. And fuch a man 
can be fully relied upon, and even men- 
tioned with the higheft encomiums, in the 
venerable fenate of the moft generous na- 
tion in Europe, which hates falfehood, 
and abhors calumny! 
Sir, you may make wfe of this letter for 
your interefting Magazine, and of my 
name, by which I have the honour to fign 
~myfelf, Your moft obedient fervant, 
As Aucustfus Borricer, 
Counfellor of the Upper-Confiftory. 
Weimar, in Saxony, Fuly 2x1, 1799s 
_ Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T AM concerned to obferve that a very 
material miftake has crept into the laft 
fentence of the Memoirs of Filancieri, 
communicated by me, and. inferted im 
page 543 of your iaft number. The epi- 
thet corrupt has been omitted before the. 
words ‘‘{tate of human mind, efpecially 
in Italy, fifteen years ago.”” The omiffion 
of this epithet renders the fenfe equivocal, 
and gives room for a mifconfru@ion of 
my meaning :—Befides, if the word corrupt 
is omitted, the conclufion of the . fentencs 
will not be of a piece with the line I quote 
from Virgil—Omaia fert tempus, animunt 
quoque. 
Louden, Aug. 10. F. DaMIANT: 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE requeft you make, thet the 
friends of your Mifcellany will fur- 
nifh you with fads relative to the flate of 
our trade, manufa@ures and commerce, 
induces me to fend you the inclofed ftate 
of the import of coals into this great me- 
-tropolis, and a few remarks on the fame. 
That this metropolis is increafing in 
population, is an old and received opinion 
which is manifefted in fome degree by the | 
increafed confumption of the neceffaries of 
life, and among thefe of coals. 
The import for five years, Chaldrs.” 
from 1728 to 1732, on an 
average amounted to — 435,147 — 
Whereas only forty years af- 
terwards, viz. from 1768 
to 1772, it averages —  658,3842= 
Andit has progreffively gone 
on till, from 1793 to 1797; 
it averaged _— — 786,200%. 
It is an opinion amongft the coal trade, 
founded on experience, that war reduces 
the confumption; the prefent war forms. 
an exception, and arifes, I believe, from 
thefe two caufes, the great number of 
fieam-engines now ufed ‘in this great ca- 
pital, which have come into ufé fince the 
laf war, and from an inereafed exporta- 
tion to foreign parts. ; 
It would not be expected, that London 
fhould export many coals; but it is cer- 
tain that the frequent opportunities of 
fhipping in {mall quantities, and to places 
where cargoes could not be difpenfed with, 
forms a total of fome thoufands of chal- 
drons. ‘The Cape of Good Hope is totally 
fupplied from: hence, and the Weft India 
iflands are every year increafing their. ors 
ders, from the quantity of wood-land cut 
down 
