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the Tarrp VotumME of the Magazine, containing, befides the TrrLte, Inpexes, &c. the 
following valuable original articles :—1. Particulars in the private Life of the celebrated Che- 
valiér de Buffon, 2. Compendium of Political Arithmevic, confifting of Mifcellaneous Calcula- 
‘tions relative to Man and other Animals. 3. Defcriptidn of the Toilet of a-‘RotmamLady, and’ 
f other Treafures lately found, in digging at Rome. 4. Complete Colleétion of all the exift- 
ing Chaldean Ovacles, made by Mr, Thomas Taytor, witha preliminary Difquifition, 5. A 
curious and interefting Account of a French Manufeript Copy of Avittophanes; with a copious 
* Analyfis of its learned Preface, &c. 6. Two Eflays read before a‘ Literary Society at Liyer- 
pool, on the Charaéteriftics of Poetry, &c. 7. Directions in the Formation of Roads in the 
Weft Indies. 8. Diflertation on Outlawry in general ; Mad referring, in particular, to the Cafe 
of Mr. Sampfon Perry. 9. Memoirs of the Life of the celebrated Robert Burns, the Scottith 
Bard. :10. Conclufion of a Mathematical Paper on the Analogy between the Circle and Curves, 





For the Monthly Magazine. 
MR. EDITOR, 
I on Hume's charaéter of queen Eliza- 
beth, after premifing that I tranfcribe 
from the 8vo edition of 1789. 
‘* Her fingular talents for government 
“« were founded equally on her temper 
“and on her eapacity.” : 
Clumfily enough! as, indeed, ‘uponcall 
occafions. "Who ever heard before, or 
withes to hear‘again, of the foundation of 
a talent? fa 
“ Endowed witha great command over 
“ herfelf, the foon obtained an uncontrol- 
“ed aicendant over her people; and while 
“fhe merited all their eftecin by her real 
** virtues, fhe alfo engaged their aife€tion 
* by her pretended owes.” 
There is a fophiftical puerility int the 
contraft between a command aver ber/elf, 
and an afcendant over her peopleyas no na- 
tural conneétion fubfifts between the two 
particulars : and the period clofes with one 
of the very loweft vulgarifms incident to 
Englifh compofition. 
“* Pew fovereigns of England /ucceeded 
“ to the throne in more difficult circum- 
“* ftances ; and none ever conduéied the 
“* government with fuch uniform {uccefs 
* and felicity.” 
The f{pecific term /ucceeded has no pro- 
Priety in this place : he would better nave 
laid, afcended ibe throne. And what a tame 
redundancy in the two laft words of the 
fentence ! They fhould be expunged. 
“¢ Though unacquainted with the prac- 
“tice of toleration, the true fecret for 
“* managing religious faétions, fhe pre- 
*: ferved her people, by , her fuperior 
Montury Maa. No. XX. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
NOW refurtic and finith my Ariftures. 

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EDTA UE Se EE 

“ prudence, from thefe.confuhons in 
“ which theological controverfy.had in- 
“ volved all the neighbouring nations.” 
Does’ the hiftorian! mean to fay now, 
that fhe was acquainted with the true 
principles of roleration? 1 fhould think 
not. The practice of toleration then is an 
idie periphralfis for éoleration ittelf. 
‘© And though her enemies were the 
“ moft powerful pringes of Kurope, the 
“ moft adtive, the moit enterprifing, 74e 
* leaft. feruputlous, the was able, by her 
“‘ vivour, to make deep impreifions ,on 
‘their {tates : her own greatncts, mean- 
‘‘ while, remained watouched and unin — 
sSipainedds 7 ix. ae ah 
The leaf? ferupulous; in what? Some 
addirion is neceffary to a clear perception 
of the writer’s meaning; and we may 
readily conclude, that what has been wz- 
touched is unimpaired. Vhe whole para- 
graph wants confecution, cohefion, and 
corre{pondence. 
‘¢ The wife minifters, and brave war- 
‘© riors, who flourifhed wnder her reign, _ 
‘“‘ fhare the praife of her fuccels ; bur, 
“ inftead of jeffening the applaufe due to 
<¢ her, they make great addition to it.” 
- The phrafeology of the latter fentence 
is uncommonly bald and pitiful, even for’ 
this writer ; and he fhould have written :— 
“© but ther refutation, inftead of leffen- 
“ ing ---;7 or fomething tantamount : 
or we may fuppofé what thefe charaéters 
faid, or wrote, produced the effee& in 
queftion. ty ay 
“. They owed, all of them, their ad- 
“© vancement to her, choice: they were 
<< fupported by her conftancy ; and, wit 
s¢ all their abilities, they were never able 
B ‘to 
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