1802.-] 
of Parliament. That it is an zmdifable 
nuifance I have already faid; and I truf 
that if repeated, fome of thofe who are 
annoyed, and who with their families are 
endangered by it, willindict it and thereby 
bring it under fuch legal cenfure and re- 
ftraint as fhaN prevent its repetition, and 
convinee the PUBLIC that inhumanity 
and PUBLIC MISCHIEFS, fuch as this, 
are effe€tually reftrainable by the com- 
MON-LAW OF ENGLAND. 
Trofion, I remain, your's, &c. 
Dec. 10, 180%. CareL Lorrt. 
ee 
SOLAR SPOTS. 
HESE have been, all the year nearly, 
uneommonly numerous and exten- 
five, and ftill continue to be fo. On the 
gth they formed a curve-line fouth-wett 
of the @’s centre fpringing upward, and 
above roo,ooo miles in extent. At the 
faiie time. a clufter was entering fouth- 
eaftward; then appearing like a large 
fpot. Now the advancing clufter has re- 
folved itfelf into a line of very detached 
{fpots, while the receding, which is now 
pretty near going off, appears, by the ef- 
tect of the convexity of the fun,-like a 
large fpot with one or two faint {maller 
fpots; the Jarger about =4 of the fun’s 
diameter, or about 33,000 miles. It 
feems as if the conjeéture of ome great 
aftvonomers were juft; and that thefe 
{pots do excite the action of the folar at- 
mofphere to a greater intenfity. 
C.L. 
eee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HERE is an article in your laft Ma- 
gazine which I with to correét, not 
only becaufe it 1s untrue, but alfo becaufe 
it is calculated to give uneafinefs to the 
relations of my late very excellent and 
amiable friend John Tweddell. It is 
there ftated, that an Englith traveler of 
_ the fiame of Tweddell had been. mur- 
dered by his Greek fervant at Athens. 
Mr. John Tweddell died. at Athens, on 
the 25:hof July, 1799, in the houfe of 
Logotheti, the Englifh Agent in that 
place: but his-death was occafioned bya 
fever, brought on probably by exceffive 
fatigue in a journey to Thebes, from which 
he had juft returned. A ftatement of the 
circumftances of his illnefs and death was 
drawn up and figned by a refpectable 
piyfician who attended him, officially » 
communicated to. Mr. Smith, the Britith 
Minifter at Confiantinople, and by. him 
Corrested Account of Mr. Twedde?s Death. 
461 
forwarded to Mr. J. Tweddell’s family 
in England. His fervant, an Auftrian, 
was, fome time after, taken into the fer- 
vice of two Englith travellers, and I be- 
lieve (till continues with them, Profeflor 
Carlyle lived a“confiderable time in the 
houfe of Logotheti, on his return from 
Conftantinople, and his teftimony might 
be added.to the above, were any further 
teftimony neceflary. ie | 
A {chedule of Mr. J. T'weddell’s ma- 
nufcripts, drawings, and other effeéts was 
tran{fmitted to Mr. Smith from Athens, 
figned by Logotheti, fome of the muni. 
cipal officers of the town, and by a 
French artift of the name of Priaun, wha 
had been for fome time employed by him, 
Molt of the things of: value, however, 
appear to have been, ftolen or Joft in their 
pallage from Athens to Conftantinople ; 
but what remained were, by the kindneis 
and attention of Lord Elgin, Mr. Smith 
and Profeffor Carlyle, put on board the 
Lord Duncan armed-fhip, bound for Eng- 
land. “This veffel was unfortunately af- 
terwards fent to Egypt, but may now, I 
fuppofe, be foon expected in this country, 
Much mutt not therefore, I fear, be 
hoped from the extenfive and valuable in- 
formation, which my friend had collected 
during a refidence of many months in 
Greece ; and this is the more to be lament 
ed, becaufe, both from his knowledge of 
the modern. as well as the ancient Greek 
language, and from his activity and per- 
feverance, he was eminently qualified to 
illuftrate the antiquities of that moft in- 
terefting country. 
Fortunately, when he fet out from Con- 
fiantinople to Greece, he left in the hands 
of Mr. ‘Thornton (arefpectable merchant 
in the former place), his Journal and 
other papers, relative to his travels 
through Germany, Switzerland, Poland, - 
the Crimea, &c. fo that we inay ftill flat- 
ter ourfelves that fomething may yet be 
preferved of the four years inceffant la- 
bours of this learned and accompliihed 
young man: and if {0 I have no doubt, 
it will do credit to his own memory, and 
merit the attention of the public*. Iam, 
Gefmond Grove, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Dec. 65.4801, JAMEs LosHe 
er 
To the Editor of the Moathly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T length I haveefcaped from a lone- 
ly crowd, where idiot ceremony has 
* The paragraph to which this letter re- 
fers, was tranilated from a German journal. 
almoft 
