1797+] 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
OBSERVE with pleafure in your ufe- 
ful and entertaining Mifcellany, Vol. 
IIf. page 362, an Enquiry relative to 
the cefebrated Poems of Offian, fo much 
and defervedly admired. 
The tranflator of thefe poems affigned 
by his will, one thoufand pounds fterling 
to his executors, for the putpofe of pub- 
lithing them in the original Gaelic ; and 
the Highland Society. of Scotland, at 
their lait general meeting at Edinburgh, 
on the 3d inft. agreed to give Mr. Mac- 
pherfon’s truftees thefr countenance and 
aid for carrying this into effect, ‘ re- 
“ commending to their committee of di- 
« rectors to take the moft effectual means 
“for elucidating and alcertaining the 
“ Hftory and Authenticity of Otlian’s 
«© Poems.” 
I have myfelf, fir, had an opportunity 
of comparing feveral parts of the original 
poems with Mr. Macpherfon’s tranflation, 
and have found the ver rlion firzétly luieral ; 
the language of thefe pieces clearly de- 
inonfirates the compofition to’ be of the 
moft remote antiquity. ‘ 
I thall feel great pleafure in commu- 
nicating to you what information I may 
hereafter obtain on the fubject. 
Ful) 15, 1797. CALEDONIUS 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Mr. EpITOR, 
. WAS much interefted by the account 
of the Life and Writings of the cele- 
“brated German Philofopner WIELAND, 
which appeared in your laft Number. 
The writer omitted to mention f4e Hi/- 
tory of Pevegrinus Proteus, which has been 
tranflated by Mr. Tooke, the hiftorian 
of Ruffia; and Sele@ Fairy Tales, in two 
volumes, mich have alfo been publifh- 
ed mm England. I learn that a tranf: 
lation into French of the feleét wo:ks of 
WIELAND is now preparing by a learn- 
ed Frenchman, who has been fettled fome 
years in Saxony. This undertaking will 
be finifhed under the infpeétion of W1re-~ 
LAND himfelf. The colleétion is enti- 
tled, Ocuvres choifes de M. Witvanp, 
traduites de LT Allemand, d’aprés la der- 
nicre €dition, par M.D. V. The firft 
volume, I am informed, will contain ibe 
Dialogues of the Gods; the fecond and 
third #he Golden Minorde. The edition, 
embellithed with a portrait of the author, 
is printing at Zurich, with all imagin- 
able care, under the eye of Henri 
GeESSNER, fon of the chanter of the 
Death of Abel, and fon-in-law of Wre- 
LAND. Your’s, INQUISITOR. 
Works of Wrieland....State Paper. 
79 
For the Monthly Mazasine. 
SECESSION OF THE OPPOSITION. 
CURIOUS STATE PAPER, WHICH HAS 
NEVER BEEN REFORE THE PUB- 
LIC IN ANY SHAPE. 
The following is the Paper to which we al- 
luded in our laft Month’s State of Public 
Affairs. lt will throw confiderable light 
on the bi flory of Oppofition, during the 
American war, and indeed in all the 
public events of ihofe times.—lt 1s addi. 
tionally imicrefing, at this period, as the 
production of a great man and a great 
writer, recently deceafed, concerning whons 
the curiofity of the public is at prefent na- 
turally excited, and every produ€tion of 
‘whofe pen is dejerving attention. 
The reader: will percesve that it 1s in the 
jor m of at Addy efs 10 pis Mug, contain~ 
ing the motives and veafons for the medi- 
tated feceffion. Why that feceffion did 
not take place, we foall preva be able 
to ewplain in a future Namber. 
We: your majefty’ s mcf dutiful and 
loyal fubjects, feveral of the peers 
of the realm, and feveral members cf the 
Houfe of @ommeone, chofen by your peo- 
ple to reprefent them in your ‘parliament, 
do, in our individual capacity, but with 
hearts filled with the warmeft affection 
to your majefty, with the moft inviolable 
attachment to your royal houfe, and with 
the moft unfgigned devotion to your true 
intereft, beg leave, at this awful crifis of 
your Lie in all humility to approach 
your royal prefence. 
A Genanion without example necefi- 
tates a conduct without precedent. We 
are driven in this mode of addrefing 
your majefty, relutantly, to fuperfe de 
thofe forms which, in other. circum- 
ftances, we fhould highly refpeét; and 
to regulate ourfelves by no other rules 
than thofe of our laws, our rights, and 
the profound reverence we bear to our 
fovereign. 
We are called, fire, in a manner pecu- 
liarly marked, fingularly emphatical, and 
from a place from whence any thing i im - 
plying cenfure falls with a de cifive 
weigit, to concur in unanimous appro; 
bation of thofe meafures which have 
produced our prefent diftreffes, and threa- 
ten us in future with others far more 
grievous. We hold ourfelves therefore 
bound for the prefervation of our ho- 
nour, and, what ftands next in our efti- 
mation, your majefty’s good opinion, to 
prefent, at the foot of your throne, to 
your majefty, and our ROUGE our 
humble apology for inflexibly perfevering 
in our diffent from eye a ee of thofe 
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