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fpawn. It is faid the falmon-fithery, 
which lets for two or three hundred 
pounds per annum, is injured by catching 
them ; but the number caught by all the 
anglers does not, I believe, amount to one 
out of ten thonfand. 
I wifh to afk any of your Correfpon- 
dents if we can be prevented from fifhing 
with a rod and line, or net, ona navigable 
river, where the tide flows, provided we 
do not commit a trefpafs on another’s 
land ? 
The pra€tice of Sthing for falmon- laden 
originated probably with the firt fettlérs 
in the neighbourhood of the Dart ;. ought 
we to give up a.right which has been 
handed down from father to fon, for per- 
haps the lait two thoufand years? . Iftany 
one, through the medium cf your Maga- 
zine, could give any information on the 
fubjeSt to a poor angler, whofe purfe will 
not acm tof his having recourfe to the 
law, by fo doing they would confer an ob- 
ligation os their re{peéttully | humble fer- 
yan, PISCATOR. 
Lhe Banks of ihe Dart, 
May 1, 1825. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
EW of your readers, probably are 
unacquainted with that truly ridicu- 
lous trait of vanity in the chara@ter of the 
$¢ Grand Monarque,” Louis X1V. which 
his cringing courtiers flattered by mak- 
ing the idol believe that. the dazzling 
{plendour of his countenance and the vivid 
lightning of his eye was too powerful to 
be borne by the feeble fight of ordinary 
mortals. But it is not fo generally 
known that this abject flattery was carried 
even tothe mint, and, as far as in the 
power of meda!s, configned to immorta- 
lity. I here fend you a fpecimen, ! copied 
from an exquifite medallion of large fize, 
exhibiting a very highly relieved and 
ftriking I:kenefs of the ‘* god-like’ mo- 
narch— 
a j'ai peint en profil Pinvincible Louts, 
Celt que, de front, les yeux en feraicnt eblouis. 
For the benefit of thofe who do not un- 
derftand the original, I would willingly 
have accompanied the difich with a tran{- 
lation ; and, for that purpofe, I have at- 
tempted it both in Englifh and Latin, but 
could not fuceeed in either. Perhaps 
fome other of your Coretpandants may 
be mere fuccefsful. 
I am, Sir, your atari reader, 
May 31, 5805. GIOVANNI, 
Flattery to Lows XIV.—The Verb-Confider. 
ase 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magaxine. : 
SIR, 
OUR Correfpondent J. G. has dit: 
played much profundity in the tech- 
nical knowledge of grammar, and I de 
not difpute the juftnefs of feveral of his 
obfervations ; but I confels he has by ne 
means. convinced me that the praétice of 
the beft writers in our language (for fuch 
I ftill aflume it to be) refpecting the ufe | 
of as after the verb confider in. its fenfe of 
regard, isnot perfectly proper, and even 
eflential, And. IT trutt your readers will. 
be of the fame opinion, if I thew that the 
omifficn of it in certain cafes would occa- 
fion a temporary ambiguity or mifappre- 
henfion, which it is the bufinefs of good | 
writing always to avoid. 
When I fay, “ I confider Alfred the 
greateft of the Saxon kings,”’ I give no 
indication of having finifhed my fentence ; 
fer the claufe, ‘* the greateft of the Saxon 
kings,’ may be parenthetical or acceflory, 
and have no relation to the word confider. - 
A feeond claufe of the fame kind may be 
added, ‘* the moft learned prince of the 
age’’—-and fo on, without limitation ; but | 
when I fubjoin, ** as the peculiar glory of 
the Enelifh crown,’? I decidedly finifa 
the fentence with exprefling the object or 
refult of my confideration. 
In this verfe of the Plalms, ‘* When ¥ 
confider the heavens [{the, work. of thy 
hands], the moon and ftars which. thou- 
halt created, &c.°’ the claufe put between 
brackets is parenthetical, and not govern- 
ed by the verb cozfider ; and could it be 
fuppofed to have the fame import. with 
“as the work of thy hands,”” it is ob-. 
vious that the reader would expect a dif. 
ferent conclufion of the f-ntence. 
I prejume no correct writer would 
think of ufing the words regard or view, — 
in the place of confider, without the addi- 
tion of as, as being, in the light of, or fome- 
- thing equivalent ; and as in this ufe they 
are pertes ily fynonimous words, I cannot. 
underftand how a different fyntax fhould 
be admiffible. : 
If, therefore, I can truft to my feeling, 
which is, perbeps, the fureft guide in lan- 
guage to one who is converfant with the 
beft writers, I have m doubt that the 
omiffion of as in the cafe in queftion isa 
modern barbarifm ; and in my own prac- 
tice I fhall carefully avoid adopting it, as 
I would advife any other perfon ta do 
who withes to expre(s himfelf with claffical, 
writ , 
a a Tam, Sir, your's, &c.. 
N. N.. 
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