pried? i RETR. hgae 7h. Nadine  [EDecs 
To. READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. 
fr S. DW. is informed, that the emendction he propofesin Par: Loft, B. vii.p. 321, A fwelling g gourd, 
{fmelling, is fully admitted in the notes of Bifhop Newton's edition, aoe (we think with falfe 
eicaty) not adopted in the text. 
We muff beg leave to decline inferting our learned correfpondent F. & C. D.’s paper f parallel 
Pefices, as he muft be fenfible that refemblances, in general fo diflant, betqween differént writers, at 
be fier fucd withcut end. 
The poper on the Metemp fychofis, however ingenious, is longer than our limits will Fagg: for a fuba 
jee fo purely |heculative. 
We belive our readers in general will thank us for clofing the controverly excited by Metronarifton 
avith the laft hetter we have inferted on that fubje€. 
We wif likewife to be excufed from continuing the controver[y concerning the eccentricity 7, the earth’s 
orbit. 
Le? any mifconception fhould arife from the notification of Mr. Phillips’s-intended Necrology, i in the 
daft Mozurine, fp. 382, our readers will pleafe to umderfiand, that by the word EDITORS, is meant 
thofe of the frepofzil New Work, and not of the. Magazine, which are two entirely fe ‘parate defigns, and 
under a different Juferiniendence. 
Having found, b by experience, that many of our poetical readers are di ffatisfied with the infertion of 
pieces in Latin verle, we are cbliged to acquatat our frequent contributors in that artigle, that it is our 
determination Very rarely to print any thing but Englift in our columns devoted to paetry. 
Once more we mu? requeft our kind correfpondents, both in werfe and prafe, particularly o in. the fer- 
mer, to have patience with us; and neither infift, on immediate infertion of their contributions, nor 
always on dire@ notices whether they are admitted or not. Ft is equally our 2wifh to oblige them 
ard to avail our felwes of their affiRance. But frequently the decifion is attended with many difficulties 5 5 
and the quantity of matter prefling upon us, renders its felzGtion and arrangement a laboricus bufinefs, 
not to be reftriGted io a limited time. © 
‘ Pe have received two interefing letters on the fubje F of Bark F orgericsmmone from Mr. Ff. Lend- 
feer, an eminent artifi. They faall both appear in our next, 
Our readers will eee, tht the very able and judicious reforter of the Monthly State of Dif. 
eafes in London, who has for two years obliged us and the public with fo many valuable obfervbtions, 
has for the prefent fulfended his periodical communications. We have, however, taken hit advice’ ¥ 
cfailifhing a fimilar correfpondence with a gentlemen i in a different part of the town, | moxe to tne 
cafward; and we doubt not that his exertions in our favour-will, at leaft, diminifh the : regret proceed 
sng fiom the lofs of our ufval fubjly in thisimportant article of information, 
Tae acccunt of the gentleman who deftroyed himfelf at Brifiol, being too dong to hawe place i in this 
Number, without interfering with other regular matter, it is deferred for tite Supplementary Number, 
in which it wil) Pes! TIVELY cffear. 
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