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other in Englifh,contain this very term Fy with 
the FIFTH, as given by the very Miffionary. 
to China, who was the author of it. Fu, 
however, muft have no fifth tone; and why, 
becaufe Mr. Montucci, the Infallible, fays fo, 
It does not occur in his Dictionary—a compi- 
lation, which, if thofe who have feen it may 
be credited, is a forry one toa proverb ! 
Having thus far paraded with thefe ofents 
of learning, Mr. Montucci indulges the per- 
fuafion, that Dr. Hager will avail himfelf of 
the opportunity to add to his work, by appro- 
 priating the droppings of thisomnifcient Chi- 
nefe. He, however, will pardon us, if we 
venture the conjecture, that the Door will 
fill wait till *be invaluable articles and inefti- 
wable treafures fall have made their appearance, 
Jo the Editor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SOME time fince faw in your Maga- 
zine a tribute of refpect to the me- 
mory of Mr. George Cadogan Morgan, 
a perfon well-known to many of your rea- 
ders; and by all who enjoyed his friend- 
fhip highly efteemed as well for the 
amiablene{s of his manners, and the puri- 
ty of his morals, as for the extent of his 
knowledge, and his ardent attachment to 
the caufe cf humsa happinefs. The 
writer, [ remember, expreffed concern, 
that no other poetical tribute had been 
paid to the memory of this valuable per- 
fon; and I fympathized with the author, 
as Tread the remark. If the following 
extra& from avery imperfect Poem, one 
of a {mall feries of compofitions of this 
kind, fhould be deemed worthy of a place 
in your Magazine, I may, probably, ata 
mcve convenient feafon, make a fimilar 
extract froma Poem on the lamented death 
of the learned and eftimable Mr. Gilbert 
Wakefield. 
Extra from a Poem on the Death of . the late 
Mr. GrorGe CapoGANn MorGan. 
HERE is no place for Superftition now ; 
For Fancy, none: Realities demand 
A genuine ftrain—and could that ftrain but 
' flow, 
As, Morgan, it fhould flow, not vainly then 
Should it come. back—ithen recollection 
ftrong 
Should be rekindled.— what thy brother was 3. 
—The jon, that could to age, confoling give 
The lov’d attentions ;—th’ hufband, that oute 
ftript 
His partners wifhes,—the benignant fire, 
Heast-ticd to his chitagrenj—as another 
felf 
Tothee, of brother’s kindeft;—and a friend, 
Noto. the vulgar or the narrow fort :— 
Such fhonld he live, —the patriot fhouild live-- 
And above all, the friend of human kind :-— 
His principle fhould live ;—his love of man 
Spring in fome breaft, eftranged, perhaps, 
before 
Mr. Dyer on the Death of Mr. G. Morgan. [O&ober ‘; 
To the large paffion ; bath’d, as it might feem, 
Into his very fpirit, till he rofe, 
A baptiz’d foul, a new-created man. 
His was the paftor’s lot ; and tho’ he doff’d® 
‘The Shepherd’s trim--he never could ftrip off, 
— Nature had cloathed him there— the 
paftor’s heart— 
The paftor, become tutor, now inftill’d 
With fcience principle, and love of truth, 
Ardour for liberty, the proud contempt: 
QF pow’r, and prieft-craft, and the fondlinge 
wiles, : 
Link’d in achain, to enflave human kind.—« 
And did he teach in vain ?——No—-Morgany—= - 
No— , 
Love is a flirring principle, a feed 
That filently works upward into life, 
Of flower and fruit moft fragrant, and a foil 
The breaft of youth, where Heav’n delights 
to fhed ¢ 
The richeft influence. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
G. Dyer, 
OBSERVATIONS oz the IRRITABILITY of 
. VEGETABLES, by T. GARNETT, M. De 
Fe dis 8. cen ecb 
HAT the different fun€tions of ani- 
mals and vegetables depend upon 
the action of certain powers upon their 
irritability, has been fhewn fevera} years 
ago by Dr. Brown, who prefented to the 
world the firft {pecimen of ju reafoning 
on the philofophly of living matter. This 
fabjeét has fince been elucidated by Dr, 
Darwin in his Zoonomia, as well‘as in 
his Phytologia, and by feveral other phi- 
lofophers. ‘I fhall not here enter into the 
confideration of the principles of this 
doétrine, fince that has been done at fome 
length in my |€ture on the Prefervation 
of .Heaith, which is now before the pub- 
lic: alk that I intend here, is to mention 
a fact that fell under my obfervation this 
laft f{ummer, and which appears to admit 
of an eafy explanation by the laws of ir- 
ritability. Boe 
Inthe month of May laft, the bloffom 
on the goofeberry trees in the neighbour- 
hood of Kirkby Lonfdale in Weftmor- 
land, was very luxuriant, and feemed to 
‘promife abundance of fruit; about the 
middle of that month however, a frofty 
night, fucceeded by a very fine warm 
morning, fruftrated all thofe promifing 
profpects. In a few days the’trees af- 
fumed the appearance of having «been 
blighted, the bloffoms dropt off, and very 
few goofeberries arrived at maturity. In 
this inftance, the fubtraction of heat had 
allowed the irritability of the vegetables 
to accumulate, and the heat in the morn- _ 
ing, a€ting upon this morbidly accumu 
lated irritability, had overpowered its 
bringing on a ftate of exhaulted irritabi- 
* Mr. Morgan had been a Diflenting-minitter, 
lity. 
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