1809.] 
Brown, maternal grandfather to a late 
chanceilor; what indeed would these 
men have said to the sweeping clauses 
of such a pretender? The accuracy of 
the English press is an object of pa- 
negyric in every other country ; but the 
Edinburgh reviewers are neither exotic 
nor indigenous. 
Your’s, &c. 
NEoTERIKOS. 
STE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHOULD be much obliged to any of 
your numerous readers, to inform 
me, if the discovery of Bean-hemp is 
likely to become an object of attention. 
I see by a late newspaper, that Mr, 
Hall, the. discoverer, has received a 
medal for it 
éc. those encourager's of genius and 
merit: In his account of Bean-hemp, in- 
rted in your. Magazine, some months 
ago, Mr. EH. suggests, that the poor, in 
the various workhouses, in Engiand, as 
well as others, might not only be em- 
ployed i separating Bean-hemp from the 
atraw, but also in the manufacturing It 
into a variety of articles. 
To have cheap materials, the produce 
of the country, put into the hands of the 
poor, in our own workhouses, for the 
purpose of being manufactured: is an 
object devoutly to be wished. Thee want 
of these, and of apartments for the grown, 
separate Srom those af the very young 
females in our workhouses, is one of the 
great causes why so few of them do well, 
either as servants, or in a state of wed- 
lock. I observed, what was said by Mr. 
Hall in your Number for July, last year, 
page 469, on the pruning of the vine; 
and must er (ess, that I find a good deal: 
of truth in it. Sour inserting the above, 
in your Magazine, will oblige a varicty 
of your readers, as well as, 
Essex, - | Your’s, &c, 
June 24, 1809. Bs 
ae 
To the Editor of the Monthiy Magazine, 
 SLRg 
N your last otis 
spondent, Mr. J: Hall, EXPMESEs a 
wish to be informed, ar} is the origin 
of the phrase, under fae rose. The wild 
rose-tree (Rosa sylvestris ) it is well 
known, abounds in solitary places, and 
at a distance from the haunts of man, 
Now, as such retired spots are well 
your corre- 
suited, not only as places of rendezvous. 
‘for savers, but for others engaged in 
Sar 
_] 
from the Society of Arts, 
Bean-Hemp—Greek Proverbial Expressions, &e. 8 
transactions that shun the light of day, 
and where they can unbosom en eniselees 
in perfect confidence to ea¢h other, is it 
not natural to suppose, that these places 
must have been frequently chesen for 
such purposes ; and that, in time, the 
expression, ‘* under the rose,” might be 
figuratively applied to every thuig, in 
which secrecy and fidelity were required, 
This account may probably not be 
deemed satisfactory, by many of als 
readers; to such | can only say, in the 
words of the Roman poet: 
Si quid novisti rectius istis, 
Candidus imperti ; si ee his utere mecum, 
Nemo. 
London, Fune 19, 1809. 
—— ee 
To the Editor of the ey Magazine. 
SIR, 
\ E are much abticed to’ you for 
Hall’s set of Proverbial Expres- 
sions, fromthe Greeks, Erasmus, who 
has mentioned some of them, teils us, 
that when the Greeks meaned to say, 
that a man was uselessly, foolishly, or 
improperly employed, they used to say, 
He is teaching a dog to bark. 
a bull to roar. 
acock to crow. t 
a wasp tosting. 
a hen to chuck. 
a fish to bite, 
He is writing on the surface of the water. 
—- 1s boiling a stone. 4 
-——— shaving an ass. 
——— gluing chalk. 
a sounding the trumpet 
victory. 
—— putting meat ina chamber-pot. 
——- taking a post to kill a bee. 
—-— setting an ox to catcha hare. 
—- doing what is done. 
oom promisijg golden mountains. 
—-— taking a hammer to spread a plaster. 
—-— taking a hair to draw a waggon. 
Loe le tet 
biddi 
before the 
mmm Seeking figs where only brambles grow. 
Younr’s, &c. 
A New Cora ESPONDENT. 
Hackney, June 9, 1809. 
ec 
To the Editor of the Month’y Magazine. 
SIR,» > 
ERMIT me to Ooer to your corse- 
spondent, Mr. William ‘Allen, and 
to your numerous readers, the following 
manner of reading the Absolution in 
which no alteration has been Be i 
excepf in the omission of the word 
“and,” and a different mode of puncs 
tuation in one instance. 
“‘ Almighty God, the Father of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth ot the 
