- extravagant idea 
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“To the Editor of the au Magazine. 
SIR, 
ACKNOWLEDGE. the justice ‘of 
Crito’s remark in your last Number, 
ou that passaye In my little tale of** Learn- 
“ing better than House and Land,” where 
*T have described the Marine ainhaw. 
-He rightly supposes that I never could 
have meant to say, that every wave on 
every side repres sented a rainbow; and 
that the omission to limit that phenome- 
‘non to a particelar portion of the sea 
‘was purely accidental: Some weeks 
“previous to the publication of his letter, 
“LT had‘ myself noticed the omission, and 
“poimted it out to the publisher of the 
abl: who, with a laudable attention to 
“the interest of the juvenile reader, im- 
‘mediately ordered the leaf to be” can- 
celled at his ow expence. As reprint- 
‘ed, the passage now runs as follows:— 
c Tioumerable small rainbows were 
‘seen at once starting’ tp to view, and va- 
“nishing, in rapid: succession—all within 
‘a limited space in the quarter opposed to 
‘the sun—where the showery spray of 
‘each wave, as tossed from its curling top 
‘by the wind, offered to the astonished 
sight the momentary exhibition of a per- 
fect rainbow, though of diminished size.” 
_ FEslington, , Your's, &c. 
‘November 2, 1808. J. Carey. 
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‘To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
FARHEY who are acquainted with the 
genealogy of the ‘Buonaparte ta- 
amily, and their connections, Will. know 
how to apply the following remarks of 
St. Fox, in the fifth volume of his “ Es- 
sais Uistoriques sur Paris,” p. 64, If we 
‘compare the papal power under Gregory 
the Seventh with that of the Emperor of 
the French, it will afford an illustration 
of Horace’s dramatic remark: 
‘s ______ mutato nomine, de te 
Fabula narratur.”— 
« T have been led (says St. Foix) to 
think that it would not have been very 
‘surprising, to see the different thrones of 
Europe filled by journeymen tailors, 
bakers, jouers, &c. This will, at first, 
appear to be a Tonos, absurd, and 
; but let us enter into 
-an examination of the subject. Have 
not several of the popes pretended that 
they hada right to dispose of crowns in 
whatever manner it seemed good! to 
them, and not only te depose the actual 
possessors, but even to exclude their 
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“Dr. Carey on the Marine Rainbow. 
“excommunication gaiist 
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‘children and family from the succession. 
History furaishes many examples of this. 
When Pope Gregory the Ninth was en- 
deavourmg to ‘wrest the imperial crown 
from Frederic the Second, did he not of- 
fer it to a stranger, to the brother of St. 
Louis? Did not - Alexaudet the Sixth, by 
a Bull, dated the 4th of May, 1492, give 
the West: Indies to Ferdinand, King of 
Arragon, and the East Indies to the 
Prince of Portugal? Did not Julius the 
Second declare, | oe by his decree of 
Louis the 
Twelfth, the aide of Franee was be. 
come vacant, and that he granted it to 
any one win might be able to seize it? 
Did not Sixtus the Fifth and G Gregory the 
Fourteenth exert ail their power and in- 
fluence to'deprive the House of Bourbon 
of its inheritance, and to transfer the 
crown of France to the House of Guise? 
Now as these pontifis arrogated to them- 
selves the right of giving sceptres to 
whomsoever they pleased, might not 
these ptetended distributers of crowns 
have happened to cast their eyes on their 
own relatives? And, when it is considered, 
that Gregory the Sixth was the son of a 
Joiner, and many of his equally enterpris- 
ing successors, had sprung from parents 
of the lowest: condition, perhaps my re- 
flection may not appear altogether eX~ 
travagant, absurd, and ridiculous,” 
Such has been the revolution in. the 
temporal power of Europe that these re- 
flections may, with justice, be applied to 
France; and what was mere possibility 
when the papal influence was at its height, 
has been reduced to a matter of fact 
within the Innits of a few years. 
If you think this worth insertion: in 
your very entertaming Miscellany, it will 
vive pleasure to Your’s, &c. 
Hisrorrevs. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ~ 
HILE I contemplate the decree 
V of perfection to which the me- 
chanical arts have attained in this coun- 
try, from the superior skill and ingenuity 
ot its artizans, J cannot help lamenting - 
that, among thein, so very few should be 
found acquainted with even the rudi- 
ments of drawing; a competent know- 
nm? 
ledge of which, is as essentially requisite 
to the mechanician as to the architect ; 
for the former would find himself equally 
at a loss in attempting the construction 
of a piece of mechanism, without being 
able to draw the proportions of its conl- 
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