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MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 

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For OCTOBER, 1797. 
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ORIGINAL “C OMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
STR, Ne 
I OBSERVE you have quoted from 
Dr.Fourc oy’s eloquent Addrefs to 
the French Apothecaries, a paffaze, in 
which mention is made of a project of 
mine. For the fake of your foreign 
readers, I wifh to re@ify the orator’s 
miftake. The Britifh adminiftration has 
not put. a fhilling “at my difpofttion,” 
towards inveftigating the virtues of the 
eaffes. It is, indeed, extraordinary, that 
it fhould have entered into the imagina- 
tion of any mortal, to impute to. thefe 
men, any fuch application of the public 
money. If I ever fee M: Fourcroy 
again, I fhall certainly take the liberty of 
telling him, that m a French legiflator, 
itis fhameful not to know their fpirit 
better. I ams, fir, your’s, 
Clifton, OG. 10. T.BEDDOES. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, : 
Pig the paragraph in your Magazine 
; for September, announcing the de- 
ceafe of Mrs.Gonpwin,, it was my de- 
fire and intention to have ‘affixed my 
name, as a public teftimony of refpeti 
and affection for my late admirable 
‘friend. But by fome mifconcepiion, this 
Intention appears to have been defeated. 
Farther particulars refpe€ting this ex- 
traordinary woman, I didnot think my-. 
felf at liberty to add, as they will pro- 
bably,. within a fhort period, be given to 
the public by a far abler hand. 
~ To have been ranked among the num- 
. ber of her diftingtifhed friends, to have 
| awakened kindnefs in.a heart exquifitely 
capable of every affectionate fympathy, 
to have had an opportunity of pouring 
the balm of tendernefs into that heart, 
when lacerated by a fenfeof undeferved 
injury and calumny, are’among the cir- 
| cumftances of my life, which I fhall 
| @ver remember with equal pride and 
yleafure. . 
| O24. 10, 1797. Mary Hays. 
' Monruty Mae, XXIII. 
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meee TOT HI LOLA LUXEGYOLO. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
J PROPOSE to fend you fuch imita- 
tons, or refemblances, of the anci- 
ents in Paradife Loft, as have efcaped the 
notice of Milton’s editors; perfuaded, 
that whatever relates to fo great a poem, 
and fo illuftrious a man, cannot be 
wholly uninterefting to your readers. 
Hackney, Sept. 16. G, WAKEFIELD. 
And chiefly thou, O! Spirit that doft 
refer 
Before all temples, th’ upright heart and purey 
Inftru& me, for thou know’ft :—what in me 
is dark, - 
Mlumin 5 what is low, raife and fupport : 
That to the height of this great argument, 
I may affert eternal Providence, 
And juftify the ways of God to man. 
Book i. ver. 17. 
Yet, O! moft bleffed Spirit, pure lampe of 
light, 
Eternall {pring of grace and wifdom true, 
Vouchfafe to fhed into my barren fpright 
Some little drop of thy celeftial dew, - 
That may my rimes with {weet infufe embrew3 
And give me words equal unto my thought, 
To teil the marveiles by thy mercy wrought. 
SpENCER’s Hymn of Heavenly Love, 
ftanza vil. 
With hideous ruin and combuftion——— : 
ver. 46, 
horvificis juxta tonat Ae (na ruins : 
Virc. ABN, ill. 572, 
he, with his horrid crew, 
Lay vanquith’d, rolling in the fiery gulf: 
Wer. 3m 
Hic genus antiquum terre, Titania pubcs, 
Fulmine, dejeéti, fundo voluuntur in imo. 
/EN, vi. 581, 
No light, but rather darknefs vifible. 
No pate-fac’d does in ftol’n beams appear, 
Or with dim taper fcatters darkne[s there. 
Cow Ley, Dav. i, 357. 
—— th’ ocean ftream. Ver. 2€2. 
Hom, IL. =. 606, 
Deeming fome ifland. Ver. 250. 
—— {copulofaque cete 3 whales like rocks. 
StaTius, Achil. i. 55. 


————-——— his pond’rous fhield 
Behind him caft: the broad circumference 
Kk . : ‘Hung 
Wer. Gry. 
