- 
1804.] Edinburgh Reviewers’ Reply.—Suppofed Death by Cow-pox. 5 
affent and confent to all and every thing,”” 
&c. The Doétor alfo quotes Mr. Ray’s 
own words in the preface to his book on 
the Wifdom of God, viz. ** That as he 
COULD Nor ferve God in the CuurcH 
by his voice, he thought himfelf the more 
bound to doit by writing.”” Dr. Calamy 
was not unacquainted with what Mr. Pyke 
advanced im his funeral fermon for Mr. 
Ray, for he refers to it. But this does 
not at all invalidate the above evidence 
of his Nonconformity ; fo that, though 
Mr. Ray could not properly be denomi- 
nated a Diffenter, he was not impropetly 
ranked among the Nonconformifis, who 
fuffered, and were fileaced, by the Act of 
Uniformity. I beg leave to refer your 
Correfpondent and Readers to what I 
have farther advanced on the fubject, 
Noncon. Mem. vol.i. p.274. laft ediiion. 
Rackney, I am, Sir, Your’s, &c. 
Fan.17, 1804. S$. PaLMER. 
¥ ——aE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, 
e the Monthly Magazine for January, 
a Query is addrefied to the Edinburgh 
Reviewers refpecting the evidence, on 
which they affirmed, that “the Englifh 
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tranflation of Keempfer’s Japan was very - 
incomplete, and that the original ‘entire 
work was lately publithed in French, and 
they believed, in German.” 
The Edinburgh Reviewer of Pinker- 
tons Geography, acknowledges the inac- 
curacy of the expreflion, which he moft 
probably would have perceived and cor- 
rected, 1f he had not been at a diftance . 
from Edinburgh when the fifth Number 
was printed. He meant to have faid; 
*“the original entire work was lately pub- 
lifhed in German, and, we believe, in 
French.” 
He ftill contends that the Englith ver- 
fion of Scheutzer is very incomplete ; that 
the origiaal entire work was lately pub- 
lithed 11 German; and that, therefore, he 
was juftified in cenfuring Mr. Pinkerton 
for not mentioning thefe circumftances. 
Two complete copies of Keempfer’s 
Japan, one of them in the Author’s own 
band-writing, wete purchafed from the 
heirs of his niece, at her death, 1773, at 
Lémgo, by Proteflor Dohm of Caffel, 
From thefe manufcripts the Profeffur pub- 
lifhed E. Kempfer’s Gefchite und Be- 
{chreibung von Japan.’” 2 vol. 4to. Lem- 
go 1779. The Proteffor ftates circum- 
ftantially the mode, in which he obtained 
thefe valuable manufcripts: points out 
their variations from each other, and from 
the Englith and French verfions: and af- 
firms that Scheutzer’s tranflation is in ge- 
neral paraphraftical, and by no means ac 
curate, mm 
This German edition is noticed in the 
fixty-firft volume of the Monthly Review, 
1779, p-145. The Reviewer of it af- 
ferts, that the Sloanian manufcript, depo- 
fited in the Britifh Mufeam, from which 
the Englith tranflation was made, appears 
to him, after having compared it with fe- 
veral fpecimnens of Keempfer’s hand-writ- 
ing, not to be the author's autograph. In 
the ninth volume of Maty’s Review, the 
Catalogue raifonné of Meiners, in his 
‘Hiftoria Doétrine de vero Deo,’ is 
tranicribed ; in which the German edition 
of Keempfer is particularized. 
In the third volume of ‘* Beckman’s 
Hiftory of Inventions,”’ p. 440, it is re- 
ferred to in proof of a circumftance, 
which is not mentioned in the Englifh and 
French verfions. 
Edinburgh, Fan. 14,1804. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazines 
SERS) 
NW the annual Bill of Mortality, pub- 
H lifhed in London at the clofe of the 
la(t year, there flands recorded one inflance 
of death by the Cow-pox. Now, were 
it true, that in the whole mortality of the 
year within the diftriét, which thefe Bills 
include, amounting to 19,582 deaths, 
one, or even more than one perfon, had 
actually died of this complaint, it would 
but little affect the argument by which 
mankind are induced to adopt the practice 
of vaccine inoculation, fince this practice 
affords an opportunity of ‘quickly extir- 
pating that dreadful difeafe, by which fo 
many hundreds of thoufands of the hu- 
man race are annually deftioyed. But, 
Sir, it is not a faét that even one indivi- 
dual has thus. fallen a facrifice to the dif- 
eafe in queftion. It is diftinétly afcer- 
tained that the perfon, whofe death is re- 
ferred to in the Bill of laft year, loft her 
life from a violent inflammatory difeafe 
of the lungs. The particulars of this 
cafe, with thofe of every other cafe of fip- 
pofed death by Cow pox, which in former 
years has been inferted in the London 
Bills, (for they have been alike fuppofi- 
tious) have been clearly made out; and 
will, ere long, be laid before the public, 
when the very curious authorities on which 
fome, at leaft, of thefe ftatements reft, 
will alfo.appear. In the mean while, Sir, 
to undeceive the public thus far, will be 
a meritorious fervice ; and oblige 
Spital[quare, Your obedient Servant, 
Fan, 18,1804. - J. ADDINGTON, 
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