468 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AT EIGN Journalitt makes the fol- 
lowing calculation of the annual 
produce of the different mines in the 
world, and of the amount of the gold 
and filver that have been dug from them 
fince firftt worked : 
Silver marks. 
The mines of Ruffia 

produce, every year 80,000 3,200 
Hungary — 92,000 4,666 
Sweden and Norway = 15,000 : 
France —- 3,000 
Piedmont — 2,300 
Saxony - 50,000 
The mines of the 
Hartz = 37,000 10 
Rothenburgh in Mag- 
deburg — 4,000 
Procured from Reichen- 
berg arfenic ed —— 13 
2.82300 7339 
Rix- dollars. 
The worth of the fil Iver, va- 
luing the mark at 13 "x- 
dellars, 16 grofchen, is = — 3,858,100 
Of the goid, the mark at 203 
tixedollars. aaa 1,601,467 

Total annual produce of Europe 55459 567 
Rix-dollars. 
America, according to Campoma- 
nes and Ulloa, produces yearly, 
in gold and flver, feven mil- 
3 c ; Bi das 
lions of pounds fterling, which, 
i rix-dollars makes — 42,000,000 
Annual produce in Europe = —= = 53459) 567 
Sum total of the annual’ produce 4724592597 
. Since the commencement of mining, 
as far as hiftory or tradition extends, 
and as far as can.be traced out, there 
have been preduced by @ll the mines in 
the world : 
Rix-dollars, 
129,009,c0O 
2074.000e02 
2,203,000, elek~) 
In gold 
In fiiver 


Sum total = 
The journal: & values the rix-dollars at 
3s. 4d. each, or fix to one pound fter- 
ling. At this ‘rate, tne value of all the 
gold and filver that "has been taken from 
ae bowels of .t the earth, as far as hif- 
tory or tradition extends, falls fhort of 
the national debt of Great- ae for 
the latter, on the sth’ of Auguft laft, 
anounced to 409 o6ss70l, 18s. 42d. and 
the whole. of the former, re as 
bef: wre, makes only 367,166, 6661. fo that 
the national debt is greater by above 42 
millions iterling, 
Prods of Gold and ‘Silver Minesin.Plagiarifie. 
Gold marks. 
* 
- [Sept 
It appears, alfo, that if Great-Britain 
had poffeffion of all the mines. in- the 
world, they would not pay half the in- 
tereft, GE her debt; for the whole annual 
produce of the mines is below eight mil- 
lions fterling, and the intereft of the na- 
tional debt, on the sth of Auguft, was 
16 12725597). 58. 7d. ase above ftate- 
‘ment may afford fatisfaétion to fome of 
our readers, it is at your fervice. 
London, Sept.1797- | SCRUTATOR. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Ae infeéts are generated in flour, at 
the bottom of the facks, which are 
called by the country people mints, fome- 
times in one week, and frequently ina 
fortnight, after grindia g, as well as in 
the heart or centre of cheefe of various 
thicknefs, without flaws or cracks in 
them—many of the readers of your va- 
luable Magazine will efteem it a favour 
to be informed, on the principles of mo-= 
dern philofophy, from what caufe thefe 
animalcule are generated; if they are 
not from putrefaction, or a vifcidity ana~ 
logous to it ? 
Painfwick, Aug. 26. PHILALETHES. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Neer. to the difgraceful charge of 
plagiarifm, [am difpofed to place 
that HG “borrowing, or rather “ feleni- 
oufly taking” the entire idea of a work 
from an author, without making the 
{I ighteft acknowledgment. 
er, from whom greater candour might 
have been expeéted. Mr. GopwIn is 
the author to whom J allude, and his 
critical examination of Englifh  ftyle, 
occupyiug about a fourth part of his 
Pega cl is the objeét to which I re. 
er 
In February, 1796, Mr. D'IsrRaEur 
publifhed his volume of “ Mifcellanies ;”’ 
and in his effay on Style, p. 41, he 
fays, “ Every period of literature has 
1tS peculiar fivle, derived from fome au- 
thor of reputation; and the Aijforyof a 
langn tages gs an objet of tafte, might be 
traced through a colleétian of ample quota- 
tions, from tbe oft celebrated authors of 
each peried.” 
Here is evidently the project of a work. 
In February, 1797, Mr.Gopwiy pub-. 
lithed his Enquirer, and ‘clofes that re- 
markable feries of opinions by the eflay 
in quettion, confilting entirely of uch 
quotations 
Withifuch a 
charge, l am compelled to accufe a writ-. 
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