1797+] 
quotations as Mr. D’IsRAELI points out. 
‘With fuch evidence, I muft, therefore, 
be allowed to accufe Mr. Gopwiwn of a 
want of ingenuoufnefs, which is not par- 
donable in fo great, and no doubt, vir-. 
tuous a philofopher. 
On the prefent queftion, I only en- 
quire of the Enquirer, if, by the addrefs 
af his dialeétic powers, he can prove, 
that the work publifhed in February, 
1797, does not entirely originate in the 
work publifhed in February, 1796 ?— 
And if he cannot, whether fome ac- 
knowledgment was not fully due to him 
who firft formed the idea, but which 
certainly is the chief merit of this heap 
of quotations ? = 
Salifbury, dug. 4, 1797. Crito. 
—— 
To ithe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
- i] y é 
STR; | 
SHOULD efteem myfelf obliged to 
any of your agricultural correfpond- 
‘ents, who haye praétifed laying down 
land ‘to grafs, without taking, at the 
fame time, a crop of corn (which, in 
the diftriét I inhabit, is not common) 
to inform me, through the channel cf 
your ufeful as well as entertaining Mif- 
cellany, what feafon of the year they 
would prefer for that purpofe, on a thin 
foil, with a cold clay bottom. I am, 
fir, your confiant reader, and very hum- 
ble fervant, 
Hippefley, Sept. 6. JACOB HORNECK. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
LESSON FOR YOUNG BARRISTERS. 
“HOW TO EXAMINE A WITNESS. 
Dramatis Perfone. 
The Barrisrrr—The WITNEss. 
CA John Tomkins. 
W. Here—(¢s fworn.) 
. Look this way—what’s your-name ? 
#”. John Tomkins. 
B. John Tomkins, eh! And pray 
John Tomkins, what do you know 
about this affair ? 
W. As I was going along Cheapfide— 
B. Stop, ftop ! not quite fo faft, John 
Tomkins. When was you going along 
Cheapfide ? ‘ 
IY. On Monday, the 26th of June. 
B. Ob, oh! Monday, the 26th of June 
—and pray, now, how came you te know 
_ that it was Monday the 26th of June ? 
i7. Y remember it very well. 
B. You have a good memory, John 
Tomkins—here is the middle of No- 
vember, and you pretend to remember 
your walking along Cheapfide in the 
end of June, ; 
B. 
oF: 
Agricultural Query....Leffan for Young Barrifters. 
W.\Yes, fir, I remember it as if it 
were but yefterday. 
B. And pray, now, what makes you 
remember it fo very well? 
W. I was then going to fetch a mid- 
wife— 
B. Stop there, if you pleafe. Gentle. 
men of the jury, pleafe to attend to this. 
—So, John Tomkins, you, a hale, hearty 
man, were going to fetch a midwife, 
Now, aniwer me direétly—look this way, 
fir—what could you potlibly want with a 
midwife > . 
W. 1 wanted to fetch her toa neigh 
bour’s wife, who was ill a-bed. 
B. Aneighbour’s wife! What, then, 
you have no wife of your own 3 
W, No, fir. ; 
B. Recolleé yourfelf; you fay you 
haye no wife of your own. 
WW. No, fir; I never had a wife. 
B. None of your quibbles, friend; I 
did not afk you if ycu ever you had a 
wife. I afk youif you have now a wife 2 
and you fay no. 
W. Yes, fir; and I fay truth. 
B. Yes, fir! and no, fir! and you fay 
truth ! we fhail foon find that out. And 
was there nobody to fetch a midwife but 
you ? 
WW”. No;*my neighbour lay ill him- 
felf— 
B. What ! did he want a midwife too ? 
(a loud laugh.) 
Wie" lay ill ofa feversuand: fo: & 
went, to ferve him. 
B. No doubt, you are a very fervice- 
able fellow in your way.-—-But pray, now, 
after you had fetched the midwife, where 
did you go? 
W. I went to call upon a friend—— 
B. Hold! what time in the day was 
this ? ie 
_, W, About feven o’clock in the even- 
ing. fas 
B. It was quite day-light, was it 
not ? 
WY. Yes, fir; it was a, fine fummer- 
evening, 
iY, What! is it always day-lightin a 
fummer-evening ? 
lv, I believe fo—/ failing ). 
2. No laughing, fir, if you pleafe ; 
this is too ferious a matter for levity.— 
What did you do when you went to call 
upon a friend } 
ror 
iV, He atked me to.take a walk, and 
when we weré walking, we heard a 
great noiie— 
B. And where was ‘this ? 
i”, In the treet. 
B Pray attend, fr—I don’t afk vou, 
whether 
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