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pefition, I fhall furnifh you with the 
name of the vehicle, which I hope you 
wiJl not omit to print ; and I heartily 
with others of your readers may do the 
hike. Your's, &c. Reds 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
WAS glad to fee the Memoirs of the 
: late Mr. Hugh Farmer announced in 
your lait number. But fome of your rea- 
ders were rather furprifed to read the no- 
tice given of their being accompanied with 
@ piece of this learned author ‘ never be- 
fore publifhed,”’ {aid to be ‘¢ the only one 
of his MSS. preferved from the flames.” 
It is certain, that his order to his execu- 
tors in his will was, to burn them all with-. 
out infjeStion, and there can be no doubt 
of their pun&ual compliance, for which, 
indeed, they have been cenfured, as one 
er two of the pieces had been fully pre- 
pared for the prefs. Dr. Kippis, who 
had perufed fome of them, very much la- 
mented their deftrugtion, and in the Bio- 
graphica Britannica, after a review of his 
printed works, he exprefsly fays, ‘* Here 
clofes cur account of Mr. Farmer as an 
author 3; for though he purfued his literary 
inquiries, nothing more ever did or ever 
can make its public appearance.” ft may 
therefore admit of a Query, (if the piece 
announced be really the productionof Mr. 
Farmer's pen, ) whether the intended editor 
came pofiziled of it in a fair and honour- 
able way? and,if fo, whether it be pru- 
dent or ju to bring it forth to the public, 
after Mr. Farmer had fo exprelsly ordered 
all his MSS. to bedeftroyed? I, for one, 
among, others, fhould be glad to fee this 
matter clearly explained and fatisfactorily 
vindicated, who am, Sir, 
Your’s, &c. QUERIST. 
= 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
¥ attention, the other day, was ar- 
refled by the omiffion of the aug- 
ment in the word ‘* duAvyncey,”’ in verfe 
270 ot the CEdipus Tyran. of Sophocles. 
As this was contrary to the Canon of 
Porfon, ‘* the polar ftar of Grecian 
lore,’ I confulted the Pretace cf his He- 
cuba, in hopes that I might find it in the 
lift of exceptions, but was difappointed. 
I fhall, therefore, be obliged to your 
learned readers for any information, but 
particularly for reference to any commen- 
tater who has noticed this pafizge. 
The infertion of the abeve in your va- 
luable Miicellany will oblige, your’s, &c. 
Baruet, Feb. 20, 18044 Wr. Marr. 
Query refpedting Farmer’s Works.—R. Robinfon; [May 1, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
NDERSTANDING that Mr. Ben- 
jamin Flower, of Cambridge, has st 
in contemplation: to publith, by fub{erip- 
tion, the Milcellaneous Works of the late 
Mr. Robert Robinfon, and that a part of 
the profits is to be appropriated to the 
widow, I beg permiflion to make a re- 
mark.or two on N.N.’s Letter, m your 
lafi month’s Magazine ; conceiving, thatit 
has a tendency, though, I doubt not, with- 
out N. N.’s intention, to difcredit the wri- 
tings of Mr Rbinfen, and, confequently, 
to defeat the aim of Mr. Flower, which is, 
to benefit the widow by this pubiication. 
I fhall pafs over what has been (aid by 
Mr. Cole on one hand, and in the Canta- 
brigiana on the other ; and fhall only no- 
tice what N. N. fays relative to O:dmix- 
on, and to the cielulity and {eurrility of 
Robinfon, in his Syllabus of Leétures on 
Nonconformity ; at the lame time, giving 
perfe&t crecit to N. N. tor his ciaim to 
the character of a moderate and judicious 
man. 
Of Oldmixon, to whom N. N_ alludes 
as Robinion’s pole-itar in iome maiters, 
I can fay little, I acknowledge; for I 
know little. But, it Oldmixon has been a 
writer for a party, as he has been repre- 
fented, it fhould be recollected, that the 
other party, alfo, had their writers : and, it 
may be prefumed, nay, it is certain, that 
the /ow-party have, in many inftances, beea 
mifreprefented by them. Candour itfelf, 
therefore, cannot but think it reafonable, 
that the opprefied, likewile, fhould have their 
hiftorians ; and it is natural te fuppofe, 
that many faéts, fupprefizd, or mifrepre- 
feated, by the bigh-party, are to be found 
only in fuch hiftorsans’ writings. It Wood, 
the author of Athene Oxonienjes, has net 
been very much beiied, he has diftort- 
ed and mifreprefented things relative to 
thofe times. Robinion, amidft his mifcel- 
laneous and extenfive reading, had doubt- 
lefs read Oldmixon; but, as the Canta- 
brigiana fhews, his credulity was not be- 
guiled into the belief of the faét alluded to 
by N. N.. Whether it is maintamed by 
Oldmixon, I know not ; but fhould that 
author be deemed a mere party-writer, it 
is certain, that Robinfon was converfant_ 
with hiftorians of a higher charaéter. 
As tothe virulence of Robinfon, in his 
Syllabus of Leétures, it fhould be recol- 
le&ted in what a fituation he had placed 
himtelf, when writing that work. He 
was allowed, by. all who knew him, 
to be aman of great benevolence. I knew 
him myfelf for many years, and admired 
: him 
