1797-9. 
W. Land my friend. 
_ B. Well—and it was over—and you 
faw nothing ? 
MING 
B. Gem’men of the jury, you'll pleafe 
attend to this—he pofitively {wears he 
faw nothing of the fight. Pray, fir, how 
was it that you faw nothing of the fight ? 
W. Becaule it was over before I enter- 
ed the houfe, as I faid before. 
B. Norepetitions, friend.— Was there © 
any fighting after you entered ? 
W, No, all was quiet.” 
B. Quiet! you juft now faid, you 
heard a noife—you and your precious 
friend, 
W. Yes, we heard a noife— 
B. Speak up, can’t you; and don’t 
hefitate fo. 
W. The noife was from the people, 
crying and Jamenting— 
B. Don’t look to me—look to the 
jury—well, crying and lamenting. 
W. Crying and lamenting that it hap- 
pened ; and all blaming the dead man. 
£. Blaming the dead man! why, I 
fhould have tnaought-him the moft quiet 
of the whole—fazorber laugh )—but what 
did they blame him for? , 
7, Becaufe he ftruck the prifoner fe- 
veral times, without any caufe. 
B. Did you fee him ftrike the pri- 
foner 24% : : 
W. No; but I was told that— 
B. We don’t afk you what you was 
told—what did you fee ? 
iV. 1 {aw no more than IJ have told you. 
B. Then why do you come here to 
‘tell us what you heard? 
W. Lonly wanted to give the reafen 
why the company blamed the deceafed. 
B. O! we have nothing to do with 
your reafons, or their’s either. 
WW, No, fir, I don't fay you have. 
‘B. Now, fir, remember you are upon 
eath—you fet out with fetching a mid- 
wife; I prefume you now went for an 
undertaker. 
IW, No, I did not. 
B. No! that is furprifing; fuch a 
friendly man as you! I wonder the 
prifoner did not employ you. 
WW, No, I went away foon after. | 
B. And what induced you to go away ? 
IW. 1t became late ; and I could do no 
good. ; 
~~ B. I dare fay you could not—and fo 
you come kere to do good, don’t you ? 
W. 1 hope I have done no harm—I 
have fpoken like an honeft man—I don’t 
know any thing more of the matter. 
4 
Mr. Loft on Infinite Seriess (i ole 17% 
B. Nay, I fhan’t trouble you farther ; 
(zvitnefs retires, but is calledagain). Pray, 
fir, what did the prifoner drink his Hole 
lands and water out of ? 
Y”. A pint tumbler. 
B. A pint tumber! what!. a rum- 
mer 2 
W. 1 don’t know-=it is a glafs that 
holds a pint. 
Bb. Are you fure it holds a pint ? 
W. I believe fo. 
B. Aye, when it is full, I fuppofe.— 
You may go your ways, John Tomkins. 
—A pretty hopeful fellow that—[afae.]} 
ee —— - 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine 
SIR, ’ 
I muft trouble you with fome few mif— 
cellaneous obfervations. 
Firft, though it properly belongs to 
your mathematical corre{pondents, among 
whom I with I hada right to clafs my- 
felf, I apprehend your corre{pondent 
PLULARITHMUS* may folve his diff- 
culty to himfelf, by confidering that 
quantities, regarded as infinite, muft be 
taken as perpetually fluent without end. 
Now, though it is very true, that a 
feries reprefented by 2X2X2, &c. for 
any aflignable number of fucceflive terms, 
would be lefs, in every period of their 
geometrical progreffion, than the feries 
4% 4X4, the one being 64, when the 
other was 16, &c. yet if both feries be 
taken infinite, there will always be a 
point in the infinite progreflion in which 
one will have equalled or exceeded any 
point which can be given in the other ; 
they are therefore both alike infinite : 
but with this difference, that the one 
progretfiion fets out in a higher ratio than 
the other ; and will ever be proportion- 
ably before, when the fame number of: 
terms is retkoned for each. 
Or take it thus—If two beings, or 
any number, fhall exift perpetually, 
which is our hope and expectation, as 
the high deftiny affigned to our perci- 
pient nature, but one has exifted ten 
years longer than the other im this pre- 
fent life: both being perpetually to ex- . 
ift, ic would be abfurd to deny, that the 
duration of each is alike infinite, or with- 
out end. But yet it will be always true, 
at the end of any number of years, or 
ages, that the given duration of the for- 
mer would be greater by ten years than 
that of the latter. 
The confufion arifes from comparing. 
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