Comedy; 4. Siege; or, Love's Convert, 
"Tragi-comedy ; 5. Poems, 1651, oétavo, 
to which are prefixed Commendatory 
Verfes, by Dr. Mayne, Henry Earl of 
Monmouth, Sir Robert Stapyiton, James 
Howell, &c. 6.Poemata Greca et Latina; 
z, an Offspring of Mercy iffuing out of 
the Womb of Cruelty; or, a Paffion Ser- 
man, preached at Chritt ‘Church, Oxford, 
ottavo; 8. of the Signal Days in the 
Month of November, in Relation to the 
Crown and Royal Family, a Poem, Lon- 
don, 1671, Ato. 
Permit me to afk fome of your Corre- 
{pondents, if the following infcription ftill 
remains in Chatham Church-yard, and 
where particulars of the fubject of it are 
to be met with? : 
«* Here lieth buried the bodie of Steven 
Borough, who departed this life the 14th 
day of July, in the yere of our Lord 1584, 
and was born at. Northam, in Devonfhire, 
the 25 of September, 1525. In his life- 
time, he difcovered Mufcovia in the 
Northerne Sea paffage to St. Nicholas, in 
theyere 1553. At his fetting foorth of 
England, he was accompanied with two 
other thippes. Sir Hugh Willobie beinge 
admirall of the fleete, who, with all the 
companie of-the faid two fhippes, were fro- 
zen to death, in Joppia, the fame winter. 
After the difcovery of Rouffia, and the 
coaftes thereto adjoyninge, to wit, Joppia, 
Nova Zembla, aod the countries of the 
Samudes, &c« he frequented the'trade to 
St. Nicholas yerelie,-as chief pilot in the 
voiage, until he was:chofen for one of the 
‘fowre principall Mafters in Ordinance of 
the Queen’s Majetties — navy, where 
he continued, being emploied, as occafion 
required, in charge of fundrie fea-fervifes, 
till the time of his death.” 
I can only add to this notice of a cha- 
racter, whole fervices feem to have deferv- 
ed perpetuation, that there is ftill ftanding, 
in the parifh of Northam, an old manfion- 
houfe, called Borough ; and there were, 
but a few years ago, fome perfons of that 
naine living in the fame parifh. 
London, Your’s, &c. 
April 12, 1803. J. WATKINS. 
—— 
fo the Editor of the Mouthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Think that poetry has feldom offered 
a more inviting fubjcct to the pencil 
than the firft fcene of the fourth act of the 
4cripanda ct Decio affords. I would, 
theicfore, beg leave to recommend it moft 
Subjed for Painting, —Quem “Fupiter, Se, 
fuse 1, 
particularly to fome of the great artifts of 
the prefent day. A painter might either: 
choofe the moment when the Queen firft 
beholds the fhades of her murdered chil- 
dren refting on the fleecy bofom of 2 
cloud; or, “when they are entering the 
portals of heaven, as admirably deferibed 
by the poet: 
Hor mira, hor mira come 
Velociffimante, Ge 
See! they mount, and now they go, 
Like an arrow from the bow. 
Now they {kim the ftarry bound! 
pons they pierce the blue profound ! 
'. Melting now, like vapours grey, 
See the phantoms flit away, 
Where their forms they feem to fhroud , 
Deep in yon difparting cloud ! 
High the heavenly portal glows 3 
Angels open!—angels clofe ! 
The Queen in front, with extended 
arms, and the chorus in the back- ground, 
clad in white, would form an highly inte- 
refting groupe below. ‘The author of an 
‘< Hiftorical Memoir on Italian Tragedy” 
has recommended the nie im a-note, 
p- 123, referring to the verfion from which 
I have extracted the foregoing lines.” cli 
Your’ Sy Ex ' EE. 
To the Editor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OR the information of your Corre- 
fpondent, who wifhes to. know the 
author of 
ae F Fe) 
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, prius dementaty 
be fo Boa as to infert the following i in 
your valuable Mifcellany : | 
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, prius dementaty 
is not to be found in any elaffical author, 
as dementa is not a word truly claffical. 
Tt feems a tranflation of the following 
lines in Euripides, which occur in the In= 
certe Tragediz, pore by Barnes— — 
—Oray oe Aainoy cvogt WEOTUyy KANG 
Toy psy eoAane TF eWTOs 
which Barnes tranflates by Quem Jupiter, 
&c. Your’s, 8c. Ww. wast 
Barnet, May 6, 1803. 
— wh ; 
To the Editor of the Mont ly Mapaisiaed 
SIR; 
Obferve your note to a Correfpondent 
at Briftol, in the Monthly Magazine 
for this prefent May, page 383. ‘Ther, 
candour of your concluding remark calls 
for my warmeft acknowledgment to yo: 
and 
