104 Remark in Preface to Hecuba.—French National Debt. {Septs 1s 
taken into confideration by the Literary 
_ and Philofophical Society on Tuefday the 
3d of Auguift next. 
I remain with refpeét, 
Your's, &c. 
South Shields, W.H. 
a3/b Fuly, 1802. 
Extra& from the Report, &c. 
TO all whom it may concern :—We, the 
underfigned, being part of the Committee of 
five who were named by the memhers of the 
Law Houfe, South Shields, in 1789, to adver- 
tife for plans and models of a boat, calculated 
to go off in a heavy-head and broken fea, and 
thereby fave from fhips driven on fands and 
the fhores of thefe kingdoms, the lives of their 
erews, do hereby make known, and certify to 
be true, that Mr. Henry Greathead, of South 
Shields, boat-builder, did deliver in 4 Model 
of a boat for that purpofe; and from his de- 
ign and explanations being moft fatisfactory 
to the ideas of the advertifers, he was felected 
to build the firft boat, which is on the flaunch- 
ing plan, and that the curved keel, which is 
the principal difference of this boat from any _ 
other on that plan, is, in our opinion, the 
zeafon of her anfwering beyond every expec- 
tation, and thereby faving, with another fi- 
milar boat, fince built by Mr. Greathead, at 
the charge of the Duke of Northumberland, 
at the entrance of Shields Harbour, during 
the laft eleven years, feveral hundred valu- 
able lives, who otherwife muft have perifhed; 
and that fuch curved kee/ is the original inven- 
tion and idea of the faid Henry Greathead.—— 
We therefore grant him this certificate, he 
being duly entitled thereto, to ferve and avail 
him as occafion may require. 
Henry HEATH. 
Wan. MastTerMAN, bonnie 
Jos. Wm. Roxsy. 
29th OF. 1801. 
ee EN 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR Correfpondent Mr. Marr (p. 
Y 26.) will find the following remark in 
p- 17, of the Preface to the fecond edition 
of the Hecuba, by Mr. Porfon :—** Quod 
ait Bruckius, quedam effe verba, quibus 
{clenne fit augmentum abjicire, verba ea, 
que augmentum nunquam habuere, ab- 
jicere non poffunt. Attici femper di- 
cunt avwye, nunquam Heyes fed augmen- | 
tum plufquam perfecto tempori refervant.”” 
Brunk, who contends for the occafional 
omiffion of the augment, has alfo obferved 
on Eurip. Androm. v. 955, ‘* Atticorum 
etiam proprium videtur preteritum me- 
dium verbi avwyx abfque augmenti pro- 
Terre.” 
Some ingenious matter in defence of the 
oeccafional omiffion of the augment will be 
found in the Preface to the Hecuba, pub- 
lifhed by Herman. 
That certain Ionic peculiarities were 
tolerated on the Attic Theatre is a point 
acknowledged. It will be fufficient to 
refer to Valckenaer, Commentary on the 
Hippolitus, p. 319, or Diatribe on the 
Fragments of Euripides, p. 167. Mr. 
Porfon’s Hecuba has brought tomy mind 
a queftion which is agitated with the Pro- 
feflor’s ufual learning and fagacity, in the 
note on verfe 738, ed. fec. namely, whe- 
ther tuyxava is ever uled fimpliciter tor 
eyus. One paflage feems to have been 
overlooked, in which the common reading 
is corroborated by. the authority of Eufta- 
thius, and which does not appear to ad- 
mit of correction, Soph. Electra. v. 45s 
‘o yee 
fAEYECOS eeUTOLS Tuyreaver Dopucevave 
Higham-bilt, 
Aug. 3, 1802. 
Tam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
E. COGAN» 
nt 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ISLED by the paper which was 
fent me refpeéting the French 
funds, and to which I referred in the 
letter you were fo obliging as to infert 
in your laft Monthly Magazine, the az- 
nual interefi of their debt, about four 
millions fterling, is {tated as the principal. 
This appears from the accounts of the 
French national debt which have been 
fince cireulated in London, and which 
have found their way into fome of the 
public newfpapers. Having this infor- 
mation juft communicated to me, I think 
it proper the zuz/icke fhould be pointed — 
out to your readers as foon as pofflible. 
The inferticn, therefore, of this letter, 
in your next Monthly Magazine, will 
add to the obligations of your conftant 
reader, 
> Fuly 26, 1802, Q. 
For 
