1804. | 
“To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
HOEVER be the author of Canta- 
brigiaza, he has done me honour 
in having mentioned me in fuch a caufe, 
and with fach men as thofe whom he has 
enumerated. But I was not of Trinity. 
What claim the Uxiverjity of CAMBRIDGE 
has in me, or I in that, is to be referred 
(aad I fear it is but little) to Peter-hou/e : 
to which college I was fent by my father, 
becaufe it was a fmall one (a reafon which 
did not altogether anfwer his expectations 
4nd mine) aad for two other reafons of 
more prevailing and fatisfa€tory induce- 
ment; that the Jearned and excellent 
Dr. Law, father to the prefent Cuisr 
Justice, who was alfo of Peter-houfe, 
then prefided in’ it, and that Dr. Joun 
Jens, whofe name will always be 
repeated with refpect and affection by 
every lover of liberty and peace,. of litera- 
ture “and fcience, of humanity and the 
welfare of mankind, had been a fellow of 
it, as the author of Cavztabrigiana has re- 
marked, and then refided near the college, 
in confequence of his marriage with Mifs 
TORKINGTON, alady truly worthy of him. 
Iam, your’s fincerely, 
. Cape. Lorrr. 
Trofton, near Bury, Suffolk, 
4th Fan. 1804. 
“To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T SHOULD be glad to be informed by, 
any of your readers, verfed in hiftori-: 
cal or biographical enquiries, whether 
there exifts any particular record of the 
life and a€tions of that great warrior and 
ftatefisan, John Duke of Bedford, Regent 
et France, brother of Henry V. 
Your’s, &c. 
J. A. 
4 
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To the Editor of the Montily Magazine. 
SIR, . 
F you think it worthy of public atten- 
tion, you will pleafe to infert the ac- 
count of the following difcovery in your 
valuable Magazine. Nh 
As the inflox of company to Chelten- 
ham, for two or three years paft, has been 
fo confiderable, that the faline wells have 
been drank dry every morning, in the 
height of the feafon, and the falis, pre- 
pared from them not fufficient for ordi- 
nary confumption, I have fuperintended 
boring the ground on the fouth fide of that 
town during the greateft part of lat fum- 
mer, for the difcovery of new !prings, and 
have fo far iucceeded, thata well has been 
funk forty-one feet deep, and fix feet 
wide, which at this time contains twenty- 
_ Cheltenbam.—On Myopia. aM " 
two feet of water, of the fame kind as the 
old fpas, and not three hundred yards dil- 
tant from them. . 
It muft be fatisfactory for the public at 
large, and for the proprietors of the New. 
Theatre, and of other numerous buildings 
ereCting at that place, to be informed, that 
“a fufficient fupply of water, to greatly dif- 
tingufhed for the cure of bilious difeafes, 
can at all times be had at Cheltenham for 
any number of company. 
Your obedient Servant, 
THOMAS JAMESGN, M,. De 
London, Dee. 26ti, 1803. ; 
To the Editor of the Monthly Mazazizxe. 
. MONG your numerous - Readers, : 
there mult undoubtedly be fome, 
who, with myfelf, labour under that icon. 
“venience arifing from the peculiar firuc- 
ture of the vifval organ, called Myopza. 
I take leave therefore, Sir, to offer to the 
notice of my brother Myopes who may be 
your readers, the following oblervations 
and to requef&t alfo that fome one will 
make known through this,medium, whe 
ther his experience will furnith additional 
proof of the faéts which I have taken the 
liberty to ftate; or whether, on the con- — 
“ trary, he may hawe found reafon to allow 
the dicta of fome tcientific men on this fub. 
ject; which, fo far only as my {mail ex- 
perience has furniffed me with proofs, 
feem to be not well founded. © 
“This difeafe, arifing from a too creat 
convexity of the cornea, whereby the rays 
of light converge too foon, and confequently 
unite before they reach the retina, is (aid 
to be always in a progreflive ftate of 
amendment; the eye gradually flattening 
as we approach old age. In conformity 
to. this doétrine, it is ufually recommended 
to perfons who require theaid of concave 
~ glaffes, to begin with the. deepeft. which 
they can conveniently bear: as the necef~ 
fity for them will be continually decreaf- 
ing, or, in other words, the eyes by their 
natural decay will be gradually adapting 
themfelves to glaffes of a lower number. 
Now, Sir, taéts the very reverfe of this, 
have appeared to me to be eftablifhed in 
each of the few cafes into which I have 
had an opportunity of inquiring. 
cafes, though few, Ican fuily rely upon 
the fidelity of the ftatements ;. for thi#de- 
fe& of Myopifz prevails confiderably in 
my family, and it is from this fource that 
I draw my information; and in each in- 
ftance it has been found that with the 
advance of years, glaffes deeper than thofe 
formerly ufed, were neceflary ; or, at lealt, 
“advantageous; inafmuch as they defined 
diftant objects with greater accuracy. —- 
I cet 
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