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refernble the written books of thofe times. 
There are alfo in the public library two 
volumes printed a very few years after 
the preceding ; and it is furprifing to ob- 
_ férve how nearly they approach to the ele- 
gance of modern printing; fo that the art 
of printing, that moft invaluable inven- 
tion, muft have arrived at perfcétion almoft 
at once. But the oldeft printed book of 
al] at Cambridge is the CATHOLICON, 
printed anno 1460. 
The mott curious printed book is per- 
haps the Chronicon Chronicorum of Hart- 
man Schedel, printed at Nuremburg, an- 
no 3493. Of this there are four copies 
at leaft at Cambridge. Two of thefe are 
in the public library, one in St. John’s, 
but the moft remarkable belongs to Trini- 
ty College. There are various paintings 
$n it, and in folio CLXXXITI. are repre- 
Yentations of the emperors, feven elec- 
tors, princes, and counts of the German 
empire, with their arms painted. At fo- 
Ko CCLXI. isa monftrous picture of An-~ 
‘tichrift, with feven heads, and almoft as 
many colours, with an infcription in ma- 
nuicript on the pedeftal. In folio CCLXATI. 
3s another picture of Antichrift, with the 
following lines on the oppofite page : 
Judicabit judices Judex generalis, 
Wec nihil proderit dignitas papalis, 
Sive fit epifcopus five cardinalis, 
Reus condemnabitur, nec dicetur qualis: 
Nec nihil proderit quicquam allegare, 
WNeque excipere neque replicare, 
Nec ad apoftolicam fedem appellare, 
Reus condemnabitur, nec dicetur quare. 
Cogitate miferi qui et quales eftis, 
Quid in hoc judicio dicere potettis, 
Idem erit Dominus, Judex, Actor, Teftis. 
In the Memoirs of Baker by Matters 
may be feen a more complete account of 
this book. Mr. Mafters himfelf alfo had 
a copy of it. 
XLIV.—DR. RANDALL’S MUSIC fo the 
ODE on the INSTALLATION of the DUKE 
of GRAFTON. 
Gray’s Ode on the Inftallation of the 
’ Duke of Graften pofleffes great poetical 
beauties, and would have been more ad- 
mired had it rot been furpafled by his two 
mafiér. pieces, the Bard, and the Progrefs 
of Poetry. It was fet to mufic by Dr. 
Randall, Profeffor of Mufic at the time, 
and a very fkilful organift. The Door, 
while compofing it, regularly attended 
Gray for three months. Gray himfelf 
pofleffed a very accurate tafte in mufic, had 
a very hich opinion of mufica] expreffion, 
and weighed every note of the compofition 
with the moft critical exaétne{S, that it 
Letter from Mr. Henry. 
[April 4, 
might forcibly exprefs his language and 
fentiments. Gray, having formed his tafte 
after the Italian {fchool, was no friend to 
the xoife of fome great compofers, The 
mufic therefore is formed rather on the 
Italian tafte; but when the Doctor came 
to the chorus, Gray exclaimed—* I have 
now done.—Make as much noifle as you 
pleale.”” ' 
The feore of this mufic in manufcript 
is ft:l] pofieffed by the Doéter’s fon, Mr. 
Edw.Randall, who refides in the town ; and 
it is wifhed and expected that it will ftill 
be publifhed, it having been fuggefted to 
him, that it would doubtlefs prove highly 
acceptable to perfons of tafte,and lovers of 
harmony. A {acrifice ought to be offered 
to the Mufes for delaying the publication 
fo long : 
For they are ladies of the fweeteft nature 5 
But, if negleGted, will become indignant, 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Am fenfible that an apology is necef- 
fary for obtruding on you and on your 
readers a fubject, which may appear, on 
firft view, to have little claim to general — 
attention. If the rights and privileges of 
an individual were alone involved on this 
occafion, I fhould not have requefted a 
place in your Magazine for the following 
fiatement. But it is furely a matter of 
general concern that the appropriation of 
inventions and improvements fhould be 
dealt with ftri€t juftice to their authors: 
for the profpeé&t of this diftribution of 
<< honour where it is due’” is one of the 
moft animating pfinciples of action; and 
the extinétion of this motive would cer- 
tainly follow an indifference on the part 
of the public to the claims of inventors. 
More than fifteen years ago, during the 
delivery of a courfe of chemical leétures by 
my father, in this town, he had cccafion 
to notice a quality of the acetic acid, or 
radical vinegar, which had not, to his 
knowledge, been before obferved; viz. its 
property of diflolving camphire, and va- 
rious effential oils. The compound was 
found to pofiefs a mot agreeable and pun- 
gent odour; and, as the Vinaigre des 
quatres Voleurs had gained much reputa- 
tion in preventing infection, it occurred to 
him that the newly difcovered folution 
would have ftill more powerful effects, in 
confequence of its high fiate of concentra- 
tion. A bottle of this preparation he gave 
to a late a€tive magiftrate and philanthro- 
pitt (T. B. Bayley, Efq. F. R.S.) who, 
in the courfe of an unwearied and. un- 
caunted exercife of his public function, 
was 
