6 
. Dryden’s Virgil, Aineid, book I, line 
752 = a f 
Fo that fweet region was our voyage bent. 
Tranflation of the Fifth Satire of Per- 
fus : 
Nothing retards thy voyage now, uniefs— 
Tranflation of Ovid, Fable of Ceyx and 
Adeyone =. 
Nor could be wrought his voyage to refrain. 
Pope’s Iliad, book IX. Jine 731: 
Eet thefe return—our voyage or our flay, &c. 
Odyffey, bookI: 
3 fteer my voyage to the Brutian fand. 
Aigain, fame book : 
Thence fpeed your weyage to the Spartan 
ftrand. 
Again, fame book ; 
Which, voyaging from Troy, the victors bore. 
Book IT. : 
A private voyager, I pafs the main. 
Again, Book III. : 
And crown our voyage with defir’d fuccefs. 
Dyer’s Fleece, Book IV. : 
Thofe fhips from ocean broad which voyage 
through. 
Again: 
Traffic fhapes 
& winding voyage, by the lofty coaft, &c. 
Again: 
The keels which woyage through Molucca’s 
frreights. 
Again: » 
Happy the woyage o’er th’ Atlantic brine. 
F prefume thefe inftances, from the moft 
roved writers, are fully fufficient to 
detend the ufe of voyage as a diflyllable 
in poetry. Lam, Sir, &c. 
Wo. PRESTON. 
Gloncejferfireet, Dublin, 
June 20, 1805. — 
; = 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SiRgi id 
FEW days ago I faw a paragraph 
in a morning-paper, ftating that 
Captain Sir Home Popham, of the Royal 
Navy, had laid before Government a plan 
for fhips carrefponding with telegraphs 
ftationed oh our cealis. Ina juncture like 
the prefent, fuch a plan mult be of the 
greateft utility ; and from the well-known 
talents of this deferving officer, who has 
Account of Sir Home Popham's Telegraphic Signals. [Aug. 1, 
made many other ufeful difcoveries, it will 
no doubt be adopted. 
When Admiral Dickfon, Commander 
of the North Sea Fleet during the late 
war, was lying off Elfineur, Captain Sir 
Home Popham was on board the Romney, 
ftationed off Copenhagen. To facilitate 
the conveyance of intelligence, the latter 
invented a fet of flags, to be ufed as a fea- 
telegraph ; and although the diftance be- 
tween thefe places is at leaft fix miles, yet 
it was conveyed in five minutes. 
In December, 1800, Sir H. Popham 
was fent out with the Romney, and abe- 
dy of troops, to co-operate by the route 
of the Red Sea, with an army from In- 
dia, andthat of General Sir Raiph Aber- 
crombie by the Mediterranean, for the 
purpefe of expelling the French from 
Egypt. During this fervice Sir Home 
greatly improved his marine-telegraph, 
which here, as weil as formerly, was of 
great fervice. From the Red Sea he went 
to India ; and while at Calcutta, he print- 
ed at the Company's prefs a {mall volume, 
under the title of ** A Marine Vocabu- 
lary ; or, Telegraphie Signals,’ copies 
of which he entrufted to tuch navy-ofhi- 
cers as he judged would make a proper 
ufe of them. 
On his return to England in April - 
Tat, he fubmitred his plan to the confide- 
ration of fome of the firit naval charae- 
ters, who approved highly of it, .and 
whofe opinion was, that much effential 
advantage might be derived from it to his 
Majefty’s fervice. This induced him to 
reprint his little work in May laft, with 
great additions and improvements. As 
Earl Spencer, the late able and truly for- 
tunate Firft Lord of the Admiralty, te 
whom Sic Home had originally communi- 
cated his plan, was pleafed to exprefs his 
entire approbation of it, the work is. de- 
dicated to him. Copies have been pre- 
fented to his Majefty and the Royal Fa- 
mily. : 
ita the intereft of a friend, with 
whom Sir Home Popham is in habits of 
intimacy, the writer of this article was 
favoured with a fight of the work, which 
is now entitled, “‘ Telegraphic Signals ; 
or, Marine Vocabulary ; by Sir Home 
Popham, Commander of the Illuftrious 
Order of St. Jchn of Jerufalem, F. R.S. 
and Captain in the Royal Navy.” 
An account of fo ufeful an invention » 
weil merits a place in the firft literary Ma- 
gazine in this country, and pleads my ex- 
cufe for laying it betore the public, which 
I am the more induced to do, as being a 
private 
