1802,] 
but I cannot avoid fufpe@ting, that fome 
new and improper circumftances, connect- 
ed with the commerce in cattle, have con- 
tributed to enhance the price of meat. It 
is faid that the price of lean ftock is ad- 
vanced to double the rate at which it was 
fold a few years ago. Yet it is probable 
that the number of thofe cattle has not 
decreafed ; and that the rent of the land 
upon which they are bred is not much ad- 
vanced. 
The breeders indeed require profits 
fomewhat larger than heretofore, but the 
difference in the price of their ftock is too 
great to be juftified upon that or any 
other confideration of which I am aware. 
It appears to me that the millers have 
for fome time been in the habit of gaining 
exorbitant profits. Perhaps the beft re- 
medy for this would be to abolifh the af- 
fize upon bread, and thus ftimulate the ba- 
kers to buy their flour on the loweft poffi- 
ble terms. 
I am perfuaded that it would be as ad- 
vantageous as it is equitable to allow a 
free commerce in all articles, which are 
not by nature or cuftom abfolutely necef- 
fary for fubfiftence, and where there might 
be a competition among the fellers. But 
there is no competition among the venders 
of corn and cattle; and as thefe are com- 
modities which muft be had, the fellers 
have always an advantage over thofe who 
buy for confumption. fF think therefore, 
that reftri€tions upon the commerce in 
thofe articles are warrantable ; and I am 
of opinion further, that the public good 
eflentially requires that this trade fhould 
be fubjected to fome reftriftive regulations. 
‘There appears to me no doubt of the ex- 
pediency of a law, which fhould very 
ftriftly prohibit every factor or falefman 
. ef corn and cattle from being at the fame 
time a dealer, and every dealer from fel- 
ling to any other dealer, unlefs for expor- 
- tation, or to a merchant refiding at a dif- 
tant place, where the commodity was 
wanted, and whither it fhould be immedi- 
ately fent. 
Confcious of my inability to purfue 
this fubje&t to its proper extent, I fhall 
conclude with earneftly recommending 
its complete inveftigation to fuch as are 
qualified for the tafk, and efpecially to 
thofe whofe power can give efficacy to the 
plans which their wifdom may prefcribe. 
Jan. 11, 1802. J. N...H 
: ——E—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ERMIT me to prefent te your rea- 
i ders two paflages from Homer’s 
Greek Syntax violated—Chatterton’s Works. 09 
Tliad, which lately ftruck my attention on 
the perufal, as being contrary to the or- 
dinary rules of Greek Syntax. One oc- 
curs in lib. 15, ver. 308: Apollo is there 
defcribed as, 
Eimévog “aprosey vedeAny. 
‘ 
The inftrument is regularly put in the 
dative cafe in Greek, but here in the ac- 
cufative. 
The other paflage appears in lib. 16, ver. 
207,208: 
viv 82 aiparlas 
Dudsmidos preyer £ey/0V-— 
It is a common and acknowledged prac- 
tice for the Greeks, to put a vero fingu- 
lar after a neuter {ubftantive plural ; but, 
on the contrary, for a verb plural to agree 
with aneuterfubftantive fingular, as in the 
paffage above-recited, feems a fingular con- 
cordance ; and efpecially as the fubftan- 
tive bears no allufion to number or multi- 
tude. Thefe obfervations may perhaps 
induce fome of your Greek critics, to 
favour us with further animeadverlions 
thereupon. 
Hanflope, 
Faw. 2. 1802. 
Yours, &c. 
W. SINGLETON. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine 
SIR, 
| UCH time has elapfed, fince you 
WV informed the world, that anew and 
compleat edition of the works of Chat- 
terton was to be publifhed for the benefit 
of his furviving relations :° the notice ex- 
cited much attention, as well on account 
of the benevolent purpofe for which the 
work was intended, as from the defire, 
felt by numbers, to poflefs the works of 
that unfortunate genius. ; 
I left my name with the bookfeller as a 
fubfcriber ; and as I never received the 
book, I lately called at his fhop, to afk 
what reafon he could give for the difap- 
pointment. He anfwered zone, he knew 
there were plenty of fubfcribers, but the 
delay lay with Mr. Southey, and he (the 
bookfeller) could not account for it. 
As my attention was firft excited by 
the notice given in your Magazine, permit 
me, through the fame channel, to afk Mr. 
Southey, if the book is ever to be pub- 
lithed, and when it is likely the world . 
will be favoured with the fight of it ; his 
anfwer will undoubtedly oblige many 
fubfcribers as well as the writer of this 
who is 
An ADMIRER OF CHATTERTON. 
Fan. 2, 1802. 
To 
