Count Caylus. 
3799.) ‘ 
his arrivalle in the Realme of Irelande, 
being the daye of Aprile 1599.” 
In the prefent fituation of that unfortu- 
nate country this narrative hag too many 
claims on the notice of the public ;, for the 
fcenes then aéted, which unhappily for the 
prefent age cannot now be faid to be un- 
paralleled, bear too much fimilitude to 
fome late tranfactions. 
I am yours, &c. 
Temple, O@. 2, 1795s j. W. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
"T NV HENEVER a very expenfive book 
: “is republifhed, the Editor fhould 
carefully inquire after every copy that 
might illuftrate it. This very trite ob- 
fervation I fhould not make, if I did not 
perceive the new edition of Count Caylus’s 
Antient Paintings mentioned in your Sup- 
plemental Number, as going forward in 
Germany, was not in the fame predica- 
ment as the fecond edition of it publifhed 
by Didot. Mr. D’Hennery had M. Ma- 
rictte’s own copy, with his manufcript 
notes, &c. and as that was at Paris open 
for infpeGtion, when Didot publifhed, I 
cannot account for the reafon why he did 
not take advantage of it. That ,copy is 
now in the library at Mr. Johnes at Ha- 
fod. It has this fingularity, that though 
Count Caylus had the honour and name of 
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that publication, it was the work of Ma- 
riette, except, as he himfelf fays, where 
the Count made additions not to its ad- 
vantage. It is moft beautifully coloured, 
and is the only copy that was ever taken 
fur papier d’ Hollande. 
. ~ Tam, Sir, your well wifher, 
. A plus B. 
Tet te ae 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; . 
T is my with to increafe ufeful know- 
I ledge by promoting the trial of ufeful 
experiments. 
@n reading the inguiry from R. H: in 
jn your Magazine of Auguft, of the cheap- 
eft mode of making vinegar ; it ftruck me 
that the juice of crabs, commonly called 
verjuice, might, by proper management, be 
made into exceltent vinegar.—I am myfelt 
too little of a chemift to propofe the means 
of treating it; but if it can be turned to- 
account for this purpofe by fome of our 
_ able chemifts, it will be made more ufe of 
than it hitherto has, I believe. 
I alfo inform your correfpondent that 
the vinegar mentioned by Mr.~Gregory in 
your Magazine for September, is the 

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cheapeft that he can make, as I know by 
experience ; butI believe it will not anfwer 
for preferving pickles : cyder, particularly 
fuch as has an acid tendency, placed in the 
fun, will become very ftrong vinegar in a 
fhort time, and will, I know, an{wer every 
purpofe. 
In the newfpapers fome years ago, there 
was a receipt for making a wine of cyder 
. and honey, not unlike foreign wines ;—a 
friend of mine tried it. After its ftanding 
in the veffel for fome months, he found it 
not wine indeed, but become fuch power- 
_ ful vinegar, that he was obliged to mix it 
with water for common ufe.—The pro- 
portion is zlb. of honey to a gallon of cyder. 
It may, perhaps, be worthy of attention 
that the celebrated chemift Scheele difco- 
vered that fix fpoonfuls of good alcohol, 
added to three pints of milk, and the mix- 
ture put into veffels, and corked clofe, 
with the precaution of giving vent from 
time to time to the gas of fermentation 
will, in the courfe of amonth, produce very 
good vinegar. 
If any of your correfpondents can fa- 
~ vour me with anfwers to the following 
inquiries, they will oblige and affift me 
extremely. 
I -have been told that the common red 
archangel (damirum purpurcum) ; and the 
common willow (falix alba) were iound 
by experiment to anfwer in the place of 
Peruvian bark. Of the latter, I find an 
account in Dr. Withering’s Botanical Ar- 
rangement—but of the former I have only 
heard very flight mention—and I fhould be 
much gratified could I hear further parti- 
culars of fo ufeful a difcovery through | 
your valuable Magazine—I am alfo very 
anxious to know every particular relative 
to the management of nettles for making 
cloth.——-This mannfacture might be of fo 
much advantage to the lower claffes, that 
every perfon who withes to benefit them, 
ought toencourage it. Tam, &c. 
September 125 1799- if had BS 
ee WA i cel 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
‘gas in your Magazine for July 
laft (under the article of neglected 
Biography) mention made of the late Sir 
James Stonhoufe, Bart. I beg leave to in- 
form your refpectable correfpondent, Dr. 
Watkins, that a volume of letters from 
Sir James Stonhoufe, written to the Rev. 
Mr. Stedman, of Shrewfbury, is now in 
the prefs; which will contain much of the 
hiftory of that truly excellent and valuable 
man, His letters are intended as a fecond 
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