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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . sipidaihel ‘ 
N your laft Magazine, p. 489, an in- 
terefting account is given of the Rev. 
J. Prior, B.D. rector of Athby-de-la- 
Zouch, lacely deceafed ; and’ among 
other particulars of his life‘and writings, 
it is faid, that ** he was the author of an 
‘Appendix to the Eton Latin Grammar, 
printed for Hamilton and Co. without his 
name; a work of great merit.”* — Now, 
from a perfonal knowledge of facts, I 
can affirm, that the fmall, but uftfal, 
work in queftion was compiled by Dr. 
Mavor, of Woodfteck, and that Mr. 
Prior could not poffibly have any farther 
connection with it, thin introducing it 
‘Into the {gminary he fuperintended. 
es 
Memoir of the late Dr. Fofsph Towers. 
SAL 
Notwithftanding its avowed utilitys 
underftand the Appendix’ to the, Eton 
Latin Grammar ‘is now becoming {carce. 
On the failure of Hamilton, to whom the 
copy, I believe, was given,: not fold, ithe 
remainder of the impreffion tell into vas 
rious hands; and it 13 not known who 
pretends to the copy-right, which, if I 
am not miftaken, was never parted with. © 
In any cafe, the work fhould be reprint- 
ed, with fuch improvements asthe author, 
or compiler, may judge neceffary ; and 
were he to’ prepare another Appendix to 
the Eten Greek Grammar, he would be 
conferying an additional favour on. the 
public, and on youth in particular, 
3 M., Re 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
—wa ' 
MEMOIRS of the late DR. JOSEPH 
TOWERS. 
(Continued from page 44.4..) 
HE only acknowledged publication 
of our author, in the year 1777, was 
_@n ingenious Difcourfe, conceived jn that 
ftrong and forcible manner by which all 
Mr. Towers’s productions are diftinguith- 
ed, delivered on the firft day of January 
in that. year, at St. Thomas's meeting- 
houfe, for the benefit of the charity- 
icheol inGrayel-lane,Southwark, and afcer- 
wards printed at the requeft of the mana- 
gers—‘* What doyou, more than oihers 3” 
the purport of which was to thew, that 
the proteffors of the Gofpel are under the 
firongeft obligations te Jabour to diftin- 
guifh themfelves by an eminent degree of 
picty and virtue. 
In the courfe of the following year, 
Mr. Towers brought out, with his name 
affixed, the largcft and mof Icarned of all 
his pamphlets hitherto publifhed, intitled, 
‘* Obfervations on Mr. Hume’s Hifory 
of England,” confiting -of about two 
hundred oftavo pages, to which he_pre- 
fixed a very..appoiite, motto, fram Le 
Clerc. Thefe obfervations were written 
a fhort time prior to Mr, Hume’s death, 
but were not publifhed: until fome time 
after that event, a circumftance much re- 
gretted by the auther. The work which 
occafioned them was acknowledged by 
Mr. Towers to be an elegant compofi- 
tion, the produétion of rea! and difin- 
guifhed Patt and ungueftionably in- 
titled to great applaufe ; but with refpect 
: 
\ 
to fidelity, accuracy, end impartiality, 
qualifications eflentially neceflary to the 
character of a good hiftorian, he main- 
tained that Mr. Hume was frequently de- 
ficient. ‘The great object of Mr. Haume’s 
ambition, as he himfelf acknowledged, 
was literary fame; and therefore our au- 
thor has juftly obferved, his work thould 
be read with fome degree of caution and 
circum{pection. 
“As the celebrity of Mr. Hume as: a 
writer, as well as the intrinfic ‘merit of 
the work, at Jeat in point of {tile and . 
compofition, occafioned his Hiflory’ to 
have a very extenfive circulation, and to 
be much admired ; fo our author’s attack 
upon him. in this pamphlet, from the 
known contrariety of their fentiments on 
matiy important poimts, was very, gene- 
rally read, and added confiderably to, his 
reputation in the lievary world. It can. 
not be denied, that-he difcovers:a very 
accurate aad’ critical’ knowledge of Eng 
lifh hiftory for fome centuries: pat, ‘and 
has fhewn, in ati able manner, that the 
British Gcnftitution had for its aim, even 
from its commencement, the Ivberty and 
Rappinefs of the people. With great 
ability he has controverted many of Mr. 
Hume’s-pofitions, painted out his preju- 
dices, political and religious, and thewn 
that his partialities trequently led him to 
mifveprefentations, which gave him op- 
portunities of drawing falfe concluiions 
from faéts fo detailed. This work of our 
author’s is worthy of a care‘ul perufal, 
and will well repay the trouble of com- 
GA ih ie “* paring 
