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glances of Mr. Husband at a pretty maid! 
no pouting ofmadam ! no family-disputes 
about the division of a legacy or an es-— 
tate! No, no: the gift of Dunmow ba- 
con is stopped in good time, or ‘there 
would not be a rasher left in the kingdom 
for money: it would be all for love; that 
which, according to novels, is the sole ob- 
ject of human existence. — _ 
Your’s, &c. (ita 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
BEG leave to recommend the follow- 
‘ing hint to the notice of your musical 
friends. - 
Out of a dozen rehearsals, twelve are 
attended with delays and inconveniences, 
owing to mistakes in some of the prin- 
‘cipal or subordinate parts. To rectify 
this, I propose, that composers (parti- 
cularly in,concertos, or any long pieces of 
music). number every 20 bars of the lead- 
ing parts in their scores. ‘The copyist, 
would of course do the*same ‘by every 
part separately ; and where, (as it o/ten 
occurs) there are 70, 80, or 100 bars rest, 
for horns or flutes. I further propose to 
mark them according to the leading part, 
and not (as is now custamary) all together 
between two bars; shotld there be any 
odd bars, they might very easily he added. 
The advantage 1s obvious: If the leader 
should hear any instrument out of its 
place, or indeed if the individual who 
played that instrument were to find hiai- 
self wrong, he might soon Jearn where the 
error Jay, by comparing his part with the 
principal one; and should the band be 
obliged to stop in order to rectify a mis- 
take, instead of beginning the whole 
movement a second time, the leader might 
say begin from the 80th, 100th, or any’ 
other given bar; the whole orchestra would 
immediately cast their eyes towards the 
number, and the niece would go on with- 
out the least delay. Having been frequent- 
ly extremely anneyed by trying the same 
movement three or four times over, be- 
cause a flute, or an obve, or some other 
instrument, was out, (as they term it in 
an orchestra), ET submit this hint to the 
public, with-a full cenfidence that (if ap- 
plied) it will answer every expectation, 
without the least ‘trouble or inconveni- 
ence to the performers. aes 
ee Your’s, &c, 
ae HanMonicus. 
September 18, 1609. 
Mi usical Rehearsals. —Fire-E scapes. 
[March i, 
N.B. Let the music bé marked thus: 20, © 
40, 60, 80, 100, &c. &c. in every part or 
accompaniment. Some of your numerous 
readers may improve on the above. 
—e Ef 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
ANY ingenious inventions have 
been offered to the public, for 
preserving lives in cases of fire; and there 
is no doubt that numbers might be saved 
if these salutary means were generally 
adopted. But either ewing to the ex- 
pense of those’machines, or rather from 
mere carelessness, -people choose the 
isk of being burnt in thew beds; and’ 
we seldom hear of a conflagration, but 
some of the inhabitants are consumed in» 
their houses. There is one simple mode 
of security, which I recommended to 
the public ten years ago; but which, I 
fear, will be despised on account of its 
simplicity. I mean afew yards of knotted 
rope to be fixed toa table, bedstead, settee, - 
&c. by which means most people might de- 
‘seend with great ease, and perfect safety, 
from the window to the street. «This is 
attended with almost no ex pense, occupies 
littlhe reom, end is within reach of the 
poorest. I believe the most delicate fe- 
male would not hesitate a moment to slip 
down thus from a window, if precluded 
from other means of escape. I purposely - 
avoid a mihute detail of the mode of using 
this contrivance, as every person possess- 
ed of common sense, must at once under- 
stand it; only a hook or noose at the end 
of the rope, and knots, at proper distances, 
seem absolutely necessary. Sucharope- 
ladder as is used on shipboard, would be 
still more convenient, and better adapted’ 
to the use of women and. children. The 
only objection I can see to this, is the ad- 
ditional expenses, which might be a con- 
sideration with many, and that it would 
occupy more room than the simple rope. 
For my own part, I can never lie down 
with pleasure in the lofty attic of a Len- 
don house, where the drunkenness and 
dissipation of servants often occasion the: 
dismal calamity of the house and inha- 
bitants perishiug together. | 
Your's, &c... 
; BENEVOLUS. 
Dundee, 
June 3, 1809. 
N.B. As government have hamanely fn- 
terfered in limiting the number of people on 
the stage-coaches, it seems equally proper to 
eniurce some such regulation as above, topre- 
vent accidents by fire.“ ies 
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