a 
284 Pedeftriai Traveller Correéted —~Mr. Allardyce defended, [Nov. 1, 
general c.rculation,” p.1o, 11. On the 
above, 1 would beg leave to obferve, that, 
if this medal do not entirely invalidate 
the teftimony of Pracopius, it ferves, at 
leat, to thew how little regard yas paid 
by the barbarous fovereigns who; at that 
time, were gradually fhaking off the Ro- 
man yoke, to‘the haughty mandates of 
the Emperor of Confantinople. Proco- 
pius had indeed, a little before, hinted at 
fomething like a permiffion on thg part of 
Jultinian to the French Kings to coin 
monev from the gold-mines in Gaul, not 
with the image and fupericription of the 
Roman Empercr, as had been the cuitom, 
but with their own images; it is very 
probable, however, that the victorious 
Franks would affume this privilege with- 
out much regard to the Emperor’s plea- 
fure. Much aboat this period alfo, the 
Vili Gothic Kings of Spain were ftriking 
gold mone with their own portraits (if 
fuch rude features may be called fo) ; 
though it certainly does not appear that 
any of the Gothic Kings in Italy had ever 
affumed the like privilege of ftriking go/d- 
mney. The general veraeity of Proco- 
pius, as an hiftorian, is not, I believe, 
impeachable ; 
tion which he has given on the ufual prac- 
tice of putting the efhgies of the Roman 
Emperors on the coin ftruck in Gaul, 
throws fome light on the multitudes of 
Roman coins bearing the names of the 
‘minis of Arles and Lyons, and perhaps 
other places in that province of the em- 
pire. Many really Barbaric coins like- 
wife, carrying the rude, imitation of a. 
Roman mintage, with illegible letters, are 
alfo thus accounted for ; and thefe may 
have been fabricated in remote and ob- 
{cure parts, where the currency of Roman 
money would be effential, but where re- 
gard to workmanfhip would be altogether 
unneceilary. q). 
« OG. 8, 1801. 
ees 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. | 
SIR, 
UDI alteram partem has been an old 
At and approved maxim. JF adopt it 
as a fort of text for what I am 
going to fay reiative to a very undelerved 
expreffion'made ule of in your laft Maga- 
zine by a Pedeffrian Traveller. He fays 
he vifited the grounds ef Wardour, be- 
caufe they were untaxed. 
Now, if he had given himflf a mo- 
ment’s confideration refpeéting the fitua- 
tion of thofe who, without any benefit to 
themfelves; or from any. obligatioas to 
and the curious informa-~ 
‘the public, allow their houfs and grounds 
to be fhewn to tcurifts, he would not 
perhaps have hazarded fuch an injurious 
flur on them. ‘ 
You are perhaps ignorant of the curfe- 
of having a fine improved place near to” 
, any large manufacturing. town. 
I feel it, 
and from that caufe may have been fore 
at reading fuch an undeferved expreffion, 
My houfe -and grounds are open at all 
‘times to.the curicus; but a fmall gratuity 
is always expected to the houfekeeper and 
gardener ; and this I have aliowed be- 
caufe it would keep off the~ multitude, 
However, fuch ferious confequences have 
happened, on Sundays in particular, that 
I fha!l be forced to, fel! my place, or fhut 
my doors. Why, Sir, I have had my 
fervants ill-treated by drunken workmen, 
and ladies infulted, in fo much, that 
in the cook of the evenings they dare not 
enjoy the pleafures of my walks. My 
cafe-is not fingular ; for I have a friend 
who has a very beautiful place at a much 
greater diftance than I am at from the me- 
tropelis. His fortune is moderate, but 
his place fo beautiful as to attract’ crowds 
of admirers. The fervants are ordered 
to accept never more than five fhillings, 
let the company be ever fo numérous ; and 
yet this fum, moderate as it may appear, 
has not made’ him efcape cesfures, alas. 
how undeferved! for, during fix months of 
the year, his fervants are more occupied 
with fhewing firangers his houfe and walks. 
e 
than with theirown bufinefs. ~’ 
T reaily think when iuch facrifices are 
made to the public, that the public ought 
to oe more grateful for them. 
Sept. 1801. TI am, Sir, 
i ——ai— 
To the Editor of the Monihly Magazines 
SIR, 
N the laft Number of your Magazine, 
one of your Correfpondents exprefles a 
conviction that the Bank-direétors have 
not metited the blame imputed to them by 
Mr. Allardyce, and undertakes to fuggelt 
to that gentleman ‘the ground of his mif- 
take, without fhewing what this miftake 
is, or that.he has fallen into azy error on 
the fubjeci. It is not becaule private 
bankers make a greater profit that Mr, 
Allardyce contends the dividend to the . 
Bank-proprietors fhould be increafed, but 
becaufe he fhews from the mof aurhentic 
information refpeéting the “Bank, which 
has been made public, that the income of 
ibe Company is fully adequate to aconfi- — 
. derable increale of the dividend. In the> = 
firk 
~ 'Your’s, &c. A. Z. 
