ae 
35S 
4 
for water, and in the firft a fuperb foun- 
tai; from which water is fupplied to the 
kitchen and laboratory. 
T cannot finifh this defcription wi hout 
{peaking of the pharmacy, which is firuat- 
ed on the fouth fide of the firft building. 
Without menticning the inconvenience of 
this fituation, I fhall only observe, that 
the laboratory is too fmall, aad the maga- 
zine for medicines too damp, and extreme- 
ly ill lighted. 
Such is the hofpital of Malta, fo much 
boafted during the government of the 
Knights ; thefe praifes, however, it muft 
de evident, could only be beftowed on its 
internal economy a>d regulations. In 
fact, the patients were attended with the 
greateft. care, and. the moft perfc€t pro- 
priety was obferved throughout the efta- 
blifiiment ; the unfortunate of every coun- 
try were received into it, and attended by 
the phyficians with the moft exemplary 
care and afliduity. — 
—=— 
To the Editor of the Montily Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE perceived with much fatisfac- 
tion in your excellent Mifcellany thé 
able and candid defence of Mr. Hunter, of 
Bengal (whom Ihave the pleafure to know, 
and whofetalents I highly refpeét), by his 
friend A. B. of Marchefter, againt the pe- 
tulant and unfounded attack upon him by 
M> Angquetil du Perron, ina work which I 
have not feen. [It will (carcely efcape the 
obfervation of any of your numerous 
readers, that this illiberal-attack on Mr. 
Hunter is in fact aimed at the memory of 
the late Sir William Jones (whofe death, 
by every one who knew him, in which 
number I had the good fortune to be 
placed, will be confidered as perhaps the 
greateft individual lofs tc literature which 
it could have fultained), for the cattiga- 
tion he inflied on Perron in the * Letter” 
addrefled to him above thirty years ago, 
in anfwer to the afpe:fions cf fome of the 
members of Oxiord, in thePreliminary 
Difcourfe to his, Travels. Neither can it 
efcape remark that this ‘* unfledged ar- 
row’’ is not difcharscd till the fubject at 
which it is levelled is beyond thereach of 
-praife or of cenfure, arefic€lion that muft 
carry conviction to every candid mind that 
Perron was con{cious of his injuftice, and 
of the r:furation it would have received 
from the pen of that moft ableand learned 
writer. _Thofe who have heard Sir Wil- 
liam Jores fpeak of Perron, well know 
that he held the talents of that vain and 
malignant author in very low eilimation ; 
~ 
Correélions and Queries, 
OG. 17) 18046 
[Feb..1, 
arid in the elegant and inftru&tive Life of 
Sir William, jut. publifhed by Lord 
Teignmouth, it is mentioned, that on bes 
ing afked if he faw Perron when he was 
at Paris, he replied, «* No; that Perron 
appeared fiudioufly toavoid meeting him.” 
Allow me to fet A. B. right where he 
fays that ‘* a thorough knowledge of the, 
Perfian language is indifpenfabie to admif- 
fion.as amember of the Afiatic Society.”’ 
A knowledge of the Ahatic langaages is 
ceitainly a recommendation for that fitus 
ation, but many of the members certainly 
neither are or pretend to be acquainted 
with them, oe ae 
In a late Monthly or Gentleman’s Ma- 
gazine, but which I cannot:at. prefent re- 
coliec&t or put my handon, TI obferved, on. 
the etymology of the word ‘* gazette,” a 
writer affirm it to be pure Perfian, and 
that it means * feleét.” If he will be 
kind enough to mention his authority, or 
fend it to the fame Magazine.in-Perfian 
characters, it would oblige your conftant 
reader and admirer, Ri BR. 
Odfober 30, 18046 
wi 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
i one of your Magazines, fome months 
fince, I remember reading an account 
ofan A zricultural Society being eftablifhdd “ 
at Philadelphia, Pennfyivania, North 
America, I believe it fhould have been, 
that an American Board of Agriculture 
was eftablifhed at the city of Wafhington 
in February, 1803. nis 
In No. 119, for September, 1804, it is 
ftated that Mr. Morris, Governor of New 
Yerk, delivered a difcourfe over the body 
of General Hamilton.. Moyan Lewis is 
Governor of that State, and Mr. Morris’s 
name is Gouverneur Morris, by which I 
fuppofe the miftake has been made; he 
never was Governor of New York, but 
has been many years a member from that 
State to Congrefs as a fenator, but is not 
in any oflice now. Iremain your’s, &c. 
~ A CONSTANT ReEaDER 
Dec. 6, 1804. 
ne . 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sik 
S the following query will occupy. 
4 A buta fmall fpace in your Maga- 
zine, I truft to your goodnels to infert-it. 
Were horfe-fhoes in ufe before the time 
of Pliny, the naturalift >. If they were not 
—when were they firft adopted? . 
 Mowsss e052 
VETERINARIUS, 
To 
