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collegt concerning the artift, and from the 
above fpecimens ‘of his, abilities I fuppofe 
he was in the employ of the wits of thofe 
times. If any of your Correfpondents 
can oblige me with any thing further, 
they will much oblige 
Your humble — 
| Chapter Coffee-houfe, BE. A-<s, 
Oober 9, 1803. 
\ eS / 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
HAVE long been a colleétor of books 
of the habits of different nations of 
rare antiquity ; and, as London is by far 
the fpot I have found beft adapted to pro- 
eure every thing that is rare, will you be 
pleafed to permit me to afk your Readers, 
if any one of them have ever met with the 
fu ft edition of the following work of that 
nature ; as from the coarfe re-touching of 
the edition I deferibe, I have Teafon to 
think it is not enly a work of genius, 
but a great curiofity ; this retouched 
edition haying only once come in my way, 
and then at a very extravagant price. 
The title was as follows, in that copy 
which I faw, and contained three ” vo- 
lumes in one, quarto. 
All Glimo- Sig, Battifta Dotto Nobile Pado- 
vano. 
Padova Novem™ MD. XCITII, 
Fabri Padovano. 
Diverfarum Nationum ornatus 
Cum fuis iconibus, &c. &c. 
The firt part containing 104 dreffes, 
Orsament : A Salamander hammerdonananvil. 
Motto: Tale chi offende altrui fenza ragione, 
And after which foliows the puff direct of 
Sig. Fabri, as follows: 
E di quefti fi fono fatti due volume, iquali 
per me reftampati, e, fi non minganno, fatti 
migliori, e non poce accreficiuti, per effefvi 
aggiunti anche gli habiti Antichi di Padova. 
Alleffandro 
Sccond volume— 
Diverfarum Natiosum Habitus, 
Nunc primum editi ab Aiexandrogi Faéri, &c. 
-Tomo 2do. (Seventy drefies. ) 
Third volume— 
Additiomad Duos fuperiores Libros de Ha- 
bitibus diverfarum, &c. 
= Yours, &c. 
G.C. 
here introduced, as they are the firft efforts 
of the pencil towards the ornament of the 
author, and ferve at leaft tu afcertain the 
mode in which his chara€ters were drefled 
about the year 1709. 
Work of Fabri— Chronological Obfervations, 
[Nov. 
To the Editor of the Monthly MARE 
SIR, 
UR fenators have of late mee fo ab- 
a in political fpeculations that 
fubjects of a {cientific nature feem entirely 
to have been difregarded. An offence a- 
gainftcommon propriety and common fenfe- 
induces me to attempt roufing our legif- 
lators from the fupine lethargy with which 
they treat all attempts at fctentific reform. 
By the alteration of the ftyle i in 1752, the 
birth-day of our fovereign was changed 
from the 24th of May to the 4th of June; 
and, ftrange to tell, although another day 
was omitted in 1300 making the differ- 
ence between the old and new ftyles twelve 
complete days, the King’s birth-day is 
ftill kept on the fame day as before, 
whereas it is evident, that the 5th of June 
is the only day on which it can now be 
celebrated with propriety. Old Chrift- 
mas-day has finee 1800, been placed in 
the Calendar on the 6th inftead of the 5th 
of January, and the other feafts have, fince 
that period, been properly placed by our 
almanac-makers twelve days ferwardet 
than before the alteration: then why muf 
a day peculiarly. dear to every Briton be 
celebrated the wrong day of the year? 
If any of your Correipondents can affign 
a reafon why his Majetty’s birth-day 
fhould not be celebrated on the fame 
day as that of his fon the Duke of 
Cumberland, I fhall be obliged by his 
communicating them to the world, through 
the medium of the Monthly Magazine. 
GREGORIUS. 
—s Ee . 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazime. 
SiR, 
OUR Correfpondent Rufticus, p. 104, 
has been mifled by Monf. D. Han- 
carville to fearch for words in Virgil that 
he certainly never wrote, That learned 
but haffy writer had mifconceived a pa(- 
fage in Macrobius’s Sat. hb. If. c. 8; 
whio is there criticifing the line * Difcedo, 
ac ducente Dea flammam inter et hoftes,” 
whereas Virgil, fays he, had learnedly 
written ducente Deo: for Acterianus in 
his commentary on Calvus has affirmed 
that the c«xpreffion Pollentem Deum Vene- 
yum in that author, fhould be fo written, 
and not Deam. Licitrius Calvus wasa 
celebrated poet who lived io the time of 
Cicero, his writings refemble thofe of Ca- 
tullus, and fragments of them may be 
found in the Corpus Veterum Poetarum. 
OGober 15, 1803. dD 
