1803.) 
I wifh I could treat the fubje&t more 
fcientifically ; but, judging from analogy, 
there appears no doubt but the ftone ufed in 
building the above arch is the fame with 
that I have juft defcribed. If you infert 
this in your extenfive Magazine, you will 
oblige, Sir, your’s, &c. 
J. E. Bicueno. 
Sept. 5, 18036 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magarane. 
SIR, 
HE following obfervation of the late 
folar eclipfe was made at Cariifle : 
Auguit 16th, ; 
By NES; 
Beginning, - 18 1 48 
End - 19 16 34 
The morning was favourable, and the 
obfervation very carefully taken. ‘The 
time was determined by the Sun’s tranfit 
over the meridian that day, and the day 
preceding. i 
From the mean of a great number of 
obfervations of the eclipfes of jupiter’s 
Satellites, I make the longitude of Car- 
‘ Mean time. 
lifle to be rz‘ 50” in time weft of Green-. 
wich. The late tranfit of Mercury over 
the Sun, deduced from correfpondent ob- 
fervations made in regular obfervatories, 
- gives s1/ 53%. lam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
; Wm. Pitt. 
- €arlifle, 4th September, 1803. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIRs 
F any of your Readers or Correfpon. 
{ dents can give any account of the life 
and fortunes of the ingenious John Car- 
taret Pilkington, fon of the celebrated 
and unfortunate Mrs, Letitia Pilkington, 
they will by fodoing greatly oblige the 
writer of this article. * 
His father was the Rev. Mr. Mathew 
Pilkington, of Dublin, an intimate ac- 
quaintance of Dean Swiit, and his mo- 
ther the above-mentioned lady, as happy 
in her genius as fhe was unhappy in her 
life. Her fon, J.C. Pilkington, publifhed 
at a very early age (1761,) Memoirs of 
his own Life ; but they were little more 
than the mere hiffory of his infancy.— 
This haplefs young man appeared, from 
his own account of himfelf, to have com- 
menced author merely to fupport bimfelf ; 
but he was certainly by no means fo well 
qualified to appear before the public as a 
writer; as his mojt ingenious mother, whofe 
rf 
Solar Ecliple—Query—Mr. Macpher fon. 
207 
Memoirs and Poems (which now lie be- 
fore me, ) fo very amply teftify. 
It is impoflible to read the pathetic and 
fervent manner in which -this extraordj- 
nary woman recommended this her fon to 
the proteétion of her chief patron, Lord 
Kingfborough, without being deeply af. 
fected. 
A. very minute account in the clofe of 
the third volume of her Memoirs is given 
by him (her fon) of the few lat days of 
his mother’s life, which it is impoffible te 
read with dry eyes ; and the anxious, un- 
wearied folicitude for his future fortunes 
never forfook her, and ended only with 
her life. - . 
A communication in your Magazing 
refpecting the hiftory of this young man, 
will, I think, be acceptable to many of 
your readers, as well as to 
Mepicus SrocKPORTENSIS. | 
Stockport, ‘une +13, 1803. 
P. S. Some account, of the life and writ. 
ings of his mother, Mrs. L. Pilkington, ig 
given in the Encyclopedia Britannica. 
omen 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, PNA 
ADDRESS the following lines to 
you, in confequence ‘of a paragraph 
which appeared in your Magazine. for 
July 1802, under the head *¢ Varieties, Li- 
terary and Philofophical,’’ and which one 
ly came to my knowledge laft night,” 
Mr. John Mackenzie, fo far from no€ 
having received the roool. left him by my 
father forthe publication of Offian, actu- 
ally paid himfelf the money, a fhort time 
after my father’s deceafe, he being him- 
felf one of the executors of the will, at. 
which time I was abfent from the king- 
dom. pe 
Sir John M. Murray certainly infituted 
a {uit inthe Court of Seffion, not again 
me, but againft the executors of my fae 
ther’s will, to recover a fum of money, 
the amount of a fubfcription fent home by 
him from India, for the purpole of affift- 
ing in the publication ; the defence made 
apaingt this claim on the eftate was, that 
Mr. Mackenzie had received roool. for 
the purpofe of publifhing the origina! Po-~ 
ems, and that Sir John fhould apply to 
him either to publith the work, or repay 
the money. Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
-. 5... James MacpHersons 
Belleville, by Grantown, N. B. 
Sept. 6, 1803, 
Bae Te 
