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and quick lime nmi be fown within fix hours 
after being mixed, otherwife it will ferment, 
and the vegetating power 
firoyed, 
To the Editor of ihe Monibly Magazine. 
Sik, 5 
BSERVING, among the curious 
anecdotes with which your readers 
are occafionaily enteriained, a fort pf- 
fage on the early hitory of Newfpapers, 
I take the liberty of prefenting you with 
a fhort paflage from Taci‘us’s Annals 
(1. xvi.c. 22.) where fomething of the 
kind is evidently hinted at’ as in vogue 
among the ancient Romans. It is in the 
reign of Nero, in the year of Rome 319, 
or, according to our prefent reckoning, 
in 66; when the hiforian, in fumming 
together the heads of the charge brought 
by Coffutianus Capito againft Thrafea, 
puts thefe words into the mouth of the 
acculer : 
** Diurna fopuli Romani per provincias, 
per exercitus, curatius leguntur, ut nofcatur 
guid Thrafea non fecerit.” 
¢é The journals of the Roman people are 
read both in the provinces and armies with 
avidity, only that it may be known te what 
excefs Thrafea has ot advanced,” 
It is poffible that fome of your claffic 
readers may recoilet, among the fond 
companiens of their youth, fome paflage 
- of a fimilar natute, which may throw light 
upon the point inqueftion. In thefe jour- 
nals, did any fuch remain, the private 
life of the Romans might be more mi- 
nutely-and diitinély feen than in any one 
of their hifforians. 
WG Ss anne 
INDAGATOR. 
——a— 
To.the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, E 
N looking over your ioterefting Maga- 
zine of this month, I -obferved, in 
page 53, a receipt for making a cheap 
and permanent paint; which, by the fim- 
plicity of its ingredicnts, and probability 
of its fuccefs, induced me to think it 
might be well fubftituted for that expen- 
fivearticlenowinufe, I, therefore, tried 
the experiment; but either from my not 
fufficiently underftanding the method of 
mixing the feveral ingredients (I, how- 
ever, clofely followed the prefeription), or 
from fome error in the receipt, it did not 
produce the defired effet, hut the compo- 
fition turned to curds.’ By giving, there. 
Letters on Saxon ArchiteGure. 
be totally de-- 
(Feb. LE 
fore, in your next Number, a more full 
explanation of thecircumitance, you wil 
greatly cblige 
A ProMoTeR OF USEFUL DISCOVERIES 
Augult 11, 1804. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Montily Magazine. 
STR, \ 
MONG the defiderata of Englifh li- 
terature, we muff fill reckoa a 
complete hiflory of our ancient architec- 
ture. The different <fsys which have 
been writt.n on the fubject, however ele- 
gan'ly pen-ed, are-teo diftinSt in their 
views to be united in a fingle treatile: 
and we are forced to ref contented with, 
the incidental o' fervations of two or three 
writers, whole time was never metnodi- 
cally employed in its invettigation. 
My prefect object is to prefcnt your 
readers with a few extracts from the ma- 
ufcript letrers of Dr Little on, after= 
wards Bifhop of Exeter. They relate 
principally to fpecimens of the Saxon z7a, 
and may ferve as an agreeable appendage 
to the remarks of Mefirs. Bentham, War- 
ton, Grofe, and Milner. 
Your's, 
eee aS 
DR.LYTTLETON to the REV. MR. COLE, 
. of MILTON. 
«¢ Hagley Hall, Sept.19, 1741. 
«¢ —— J] withed for you this mornang, 
while | wus viewing, with a friend, St. K-- 
nelm’s chapei, It has very near all the 
marks of being’ built befure the Conquett, 
which Stavely gives us. The ancient 
dcor was at the weft end, uncer the tower- 
{teepie, throngh which you en‘ered, down 
fieps, into the chapel. The batilements 
on the fieeple have the greateft figas of an- 
tiquity I ever faw. 
DR. LYTTLETON to MR. GEGRGE BAL= 
LARD, of CAMPDEN. 
“« Buxton Wells, Sept. 2, 1748. 
ee SDR ‘ 
«¢ Tam javoured with your’s of the zoth 
ult. and. pleafed to find you have had fo 
agreeable a jaunt into Hertfortihive. 
In my way fiom London to Hagiey, Ef 
viewed the abbey cnurch of S*, A:ban’s, 
but fiouid have feen it with double fatis- 
fact.on, had you been with me. You fay 
you met with nothing either there: or in 
the neighbouring cliurches that looked like 
Saxon architeéture. Surely the .pillars 
and arches in the crofs ailes of the abhey 
church are of that age, or, at leaft, carlier 
than Heary the Firti’s time. From feve-— 
3 ’ ; ral 
