680 
The typographical correctnefs of this 
{mall editiow by Didot, is, indeed, almott 
fngularly great. I reprefented it as 
printed with great care. Its critical merit 
IT mean hereafter to examine. My wilh 
has been to add whatever might be pof_i- 
ble to its accuracy, and by no means to 
detraét. Thofe who know any thing of 
me will believe this. 
at 
Sept, 45 1799 
I obtained yefterday, through favour of 
a friend, one of the corrected copies of 
DiporT’s {mall ftereotype VirGIL. 
In this we have the proper readings. 
Tethys. i. Geor. 31. 
Malis membra abfumpfere quadrige 
iit. Geor. 267. 
Nec te nofter zmor. iv. ZEN. 307- 
But—Bis pomis utilis arbor, Geor. ti. 150, 
ys ftill retained for argos. 
J think I-need not add, in confirmation 
_ of the change x into f; the remark in the 
Afiatic Refearches, vol. i. 21: yet it is 
pleating to fee this archai{m there noticed. 
In Ain. ii. 731. Evafiffe vicem for 
viam, may. perhaps be meant for a various 
reading, as I obferve it retained in the 
corrected copy: but it feems neither ne- 
cellary nor probable. It has not the fup- 
port of the Medicean MS; nor of that of 
Jefus College; nor of the fine editions of 
4680; and not of the Plantin of 1585; 
nor of Cunningham; nor of Waketield: 
and the Nuremberg edition of Virgil, 
4492, reads allo viam. Why there fhould 
be any doubt of this being the true read- 
ing, I fee not; and hope that it will be 
reftored. . aes 
- I flatter myfelf that neither my inciina- 
tion nor my motive can be mifunderitood. 
That it is fimply an anxious wifh, in 
which every literary man may naturally 
be expected to participate, that the DipoT 
edition of VirGit, which is fo near to 
being typographically perfect, may be_ 
abfolutely io, and exempt from even a 
fingle error of the prefs. 
D it 
IN my paper on inclofures be fo good 
to correét in the note, by reading ‘* Stan- 
ton near Bury.” 
ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. 
What your correfpondent fays of the 
fate of IRELAND Is dreadful, if it related 
to any other nation: moft dreadful when 
to that nation fo related to as by vici- 
nity, by intereits; and long by a partici- 
petion of generous feeling, in which, I 
Mr. Lofft’s. Reply —Pronunciation by Accent. 
[ O&ober, 
believe, no nation on the earth can exceed 
the Irifh, | 
Under fuch circumftances it certainly 
concerns, in a moft peculiar degree, the 
executive of that country to remove all 
figns of animofity, and all obje@s of a 
vindictive charaéter; and the executive of 
this, tod avoid moft- anxioufly all meafures 
which tend to jealoufy, and to contention. 
The fubject and the circumftances are 
both moft delicate; but none can be fuch 
as to juftify the fuppreffion of a fentiment 
which connects itfelf with confiderations 
of fuch unfpeakable importance. 
; Cape. Lorrr. 
SSS : 
To the Editor of the Montily Magazine. 
SIR; 
AVING obferved the publication of- 
i Mr. Kearfley’s Travellers’ Compa- 
nion, announced in your laft Number, - 
with my name prefixed; I think it right 
to ftate, that the MS which I fent fo Mr. 
Kearfley from this place, contained Jardly 
one-third of that publication: the reft has 
been added by feme perfon to whom the 
correction of the preis was entrufted, and 
without my knowledge or confent- Upon 
my fuggelting the impropriety of this 
matter to Mr. Kearfley, he has kindly 
promifed to withdraw my name and pre- 
face from the work. . 
I am, Sir, yours refpe&tfully, 
Tuomas NoRTHMORE. 
Cleve, near Exeter, , 
Sept. 5, 1799- 
P.S. I willthank you to publifh the above 
in your next Number. 
ee eS 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
- Offendam in nugis? Hz nugz@ feria ducent 
Hor. de Art. Poet. . 
In mala. 
SIR, 
VT has been cuftomary for many years, 
I even for men whofe great learning and 
extenfive knowledge are too well known to 
admit-of any difpute, toreje&t, altogether, 
that pronunciation of the Latin and Greek 
languages which is founded upon accent. 
In this, they profefs to follow the rules 
of Voflius, Mekerchus, Henninius, and 
others, who maintained that Latin and 
Greek verfe fhould be read with a ftrict 
regard to quantity only. That quantity 
ought greatly to be attended, to, in the 
pronunciation of every language, is a mate 
‘ter which no man, | believe, will attempt 
to controvert. But I would ftate, at this 
time, what appear to me infuperable eb- 
jeCuions 
% 
x 
. 
Ke 
