484 Anfwer to Mr. Wefley —Obfervations relative to Mr. Godwin. CJan.4, 
great and generous people, full of perfonal 
attachment fo their chiefs, and yet fond 
ef public freedom, loyal with liberty, 
enlightened by literature, frank in theire 
friendfhips, and enthufiaftic in their defire 
to cement not only the profeffion, bu t th 
practice, of peace with a people like 
themfelves. Yes, by the approximation 
and example of fuch a man’ and fuch a 
people—by their rapid profperity abroad, 
and felicity at home—the Britifh minifiry, 
swhoever they may be, and whether the ex- 
minifter be again at their head or at their’ 
tail—the Britith miniftry will, they mu/?, 
every day, diverge more and farther from 
the politics of Pitt, and incline more and 
more to freedom and Charles Fox, whether 
that man takes a feat in the council- 
chamber, or fits quietly in his own. 
Dec. 9, 1801. 
Ee 
To the Editor of the Menthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
HAVE this afterncon feen in your Ma- 
| gazine for November, a_ Letter, 
figned by Mr. Samuel Welley, in which 
is a quotation from Lucian’s Dialogue be- 
tween Terpfio and Pluto. The writer 
doubts whether evepamevev be mifprinted 
for eSepamevoye Be fo good to remove his 
doubt by afluring him, that it not only 
ought to be but actually. is eSepemeua in 
Benediti’s edition of 1619, now lying 
before 
P: 
A TRANSLATOR oF Lucian, 
Dec. 15, 1801. 
— 
Jo the Editor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
-¥ T may be neceffary for the inftru&tion 
i of your anonymous Correfpondent, 
who fo anxioufly requived the infertion of 
a letter from Mr. Godwin in your lat 
Number, to obferve-that he has not ufed 
his friend m.a friendly or even a decent: 
manner... It was neither-generous, nor 
hand{ome, nor yet tolerable, to make Mr. 
Godwin addrefs an open antagonift-in the 
fame ftyle in which he- had. with. pro-- 
priety refented the fecret attacks.of fome 
malignant fraducer. . So defeétive, in dif- 
cernment himfelf, he fhould have returned: 
the letter fer revifion to its author, whio 
might have made its,contents more appli- 
cable to the ftri€tures of W. before he 
veniured to publifly it as « the only pro= 
per anfwer.”’ “I cannot for a moment fup-: 
pofe, that the fair argumentative mind of 
the author of Political Juftice, whofe rare 
merit it is to have allowed the fulleft 
weight to the objections of his antagonifts, 
by the ftrong ftatement and minute ex- 
amination which he has given of their 
opinions, could poffibly have replied to 
what was iatended for reafoning, by fuch 
indignant language as*your Correfpondent 
has copied, and mifapplied. 
I know not whether I ought to con- 
defcend fo far, by way of rejoinder, -as to 
obferve that, if this well-meaning friend 
wifhes it to be underftood that Mr. God- 
win utterly abjured the horrid idea of 
infanticide on the 29th of Auguft, 1801, 
moft certainly my accufations would not ' 
attach, on the 2oth of September, on the ~ 
{uppofition that he continued in the fame 
fentiments until that date. But then it 
appears that my charges were not brought 
againft the Mr. Godwin of Auguft or 
‘September, but againft the Mr. Gedwin 
of April or May, in one of which months, 
I believe, was publithed his Reply to 
Dr. Parr and others. Now this pam- 
phlet moft afluredly does. not exhibit any 
fuch fymptoms of horror againft the ex- 
pofing of infants, as we find manifefted 
in the letter of Auguft 29. Few, how- 
ever, will forbear to rejoice that the 
writer’s .fentiments are’ altered, ot that 
his pen exprefled what was far from his 
heart. yr 
Had the {pirit of candour or modefty, 
or even the faculty of difcriminaticn, 
graced the few lines that ufher in Mr. 
. Godwin’s letter, no one would have fuf- 
petted its being addrefled to W. and the 
trouble of inferting this would have been 
{pared to the Editor of the Monthly 
Magazine. a W. 
Shrecufburys : 
December 9, 1801. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazines 
any of 
SIR, 
T Should be much obliged to 
your Correfpondents,. to inform me 
where I may find an account of the life 
and, literary labours of Dr. Robert Simp- 
fon, of Glafgow ; and whether there be 
any painting or engraved portrait of him. 
—Any information refpeéting this able 
geometrician would be acceptable to feve- 
ral who are admirers of his genius and 
writings, and to none more fo than to 
 Yorkfrire, O@. 6. Your's, &c. 
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