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She opens the door, gets behind him on his 
_horfe ; they gallop away in the {wifteft 
courfe. Then the {wain fays thefe iden- 
tical words : 
*¢ De mond, de f{chint fo belle, 
De doden riet. fo febnelle. 
Fiens Leewken gr -yult di ok 2? 
&* Wat {choll mi gr veld du bift ja by ml.” — 
She replies. After they have been gallop- 
ing fora good while, he makes up to a 
church- yard. —The graves open; horfe 
and rider are {wallowed up; and 4 he woman 
is left behind in darkne({s and gloom. - -- 
<“Sapper ment! en [chollehnwual gruueln!” 
will the old man add in his peculiar hu- 
mour. 
You fee that the progres of the fable is 
the fame as in Burger’s Leonora; and this 
very fimilarity, nay this wordly fimilarity, 
has with foe raifed a doubt about Bir- 
ger’s aflertion to Schlegel, viz. that he 
had taken merely a few hints from an old 
Saxon ballad. 
Yet—that I may not injure our poet’ s 
known veracity and candour ; I muft fay, 
that it appears pretty meeunel to me, that, 
_on hesring the old ftory related, Burger 
immediately conceived the idea of. his 
Leonora; and that afterwards, perhaps. 
after the lapfe of many years, he cauld 
not himfeif diftintly recolle&, and, in his 
ftatement to his friend, feparate from his 
own fictions what originally belonged to 
the old tale. Whoever has made it his 
ftudy to examine fimilar productions, either 
taken from or built upon popular fayings, 
- will moft certainly be of my opinion in 
this particular. 
If even the whole ground. work of the 
poem were not of Birger’s own invention, 
it can however not be denied, that. it 
has coniiderably gained. under his hands: 
Leonora’s frantic anguifh when fhe does 
not meet her lover among the returning 
warriors—the language of comfort of 
het mether—her contempt of the facra- 
ment, and her incredulity .in its virtues, 
which motives the appariticn—-are not 
to be met with in the ora! oe 
It appears, that the tale originally paffed 
from mouth to mouth in rhime and verfe, 
till in progrefs of time it entirely loft that 
torm. 
The explanation of the refemblance of 
our Tale with the Suffolk Miracle I mutt 
leave. to you. Perhaps it is fo old that 
Ahe Saxons carried it over-to England. 
For my part, I am fully fatisfied that 
Burger did not take his Poem from any 
Englifh ballad, but from an old Low- 
Dutch tale; the more fo as Mr. Schlegel 
Account of Fohn Upton— Lauderdale on Revenue. 
603 
affures us, that Burger in the ftudy of the 
old Englith ballads confined himfelf almoft 
exclufively to Percy’s Reliques of Ancient 
Poetry. Your’s &c. 
Glandorf. J. Francis CORDES» 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the article of ‘* Negle&ted Biogra- 
phy,”” laft month, there is an account 
of Jokn Upton, eritie. ET find in a late 
publication, intituled, ** Alumni Etonen- 
fes,” by Mr. Harwood, a much @mller ac- 
count of him—that he was bornat Wymf- 
lowe, in Chefhire, and that he was for fome 
time an afliftant at Eton fchool—that he 
married a daughter of Mr. Proctor, who 
kept a boarding-houfe at Eton; and was. 
prefenied | by Sitr.Philip Sydenham to the 
rectory of Monk Silver, in Somerfetthire. 
He became matter of Ilminfter fchool, and 
afterwards of Taunton, 1 in the gift Of Earl 
Pawlet. In addition to the publications 
mentioned by Dr. Watkins, he edited 
‘¢ Dionyfius Halicarnaffius, de Structura; 
&c.”? with a Latin verfion—** Ariftotle 
de Arte poetica’—and various fchool 
books, There is a Latin ode of his writ- 
ing in the Gentleman’s Magazine for Oc- _ 
tober 1737. He died Reétor of Plymp- 
ton, Auguft 13, 1749, at theage of feven- 
ty-nine. His fon, a captain in theinavy, 
died on the 17th of the fame month i in that 
year. Iam, &c. 
Fuly 24. G.D, 
—— 
Ta the Editor of the Monthly ee 
SIR, 
WW AP ANY of your readers wili proba- 
Wis bly havefeen ‘‘-Lord Lauderdale’ s 
Plan jor altering the manner of collecting a 
large part of the Public Revenue; a track 
which difcovers an intimate acquaintance 
with the true principles of political ceco- - 
nomy, and at the fame time evinces. that 
high degree of liberality and patriotifm, 
which alone could induce his Lordthip to 
offer, to his political opponents, a plan 
which he confiders as effectually preven- 
tive of any deficiency in: the public re- | 
venues. 
But while I give Lord Uauderdale much 
credit for this plan, and for the diftingt 
manner in which he has explained its ad- 
vantages, I till fee difficulties and objec- 
tions which he has not removed; and. 
therefore I propofe to fubmit a few obfer- 
vations. on this fubieét to’ the readers of © 
your very excellent mitcellany. 
The.plan is, to replace the T’ax on In- 
come, by a tax, equal in amount, on ca- 
pital 
