4307.] 
Seeond, and kifled his hand.., He is faid 
alfo to ‘have undertaken a work, recom- 
Imending the “repeal of the Teft and 
Penal Laws, as the greateft happinefs that 
could befal the nation, and a, bulwark 
againit popery.” For this he was {worn 
inamember of James’s Privy Council, 
and upou the abdication of that monarch, 
Titus alfo thought proper to abfent him- 
felf. But foon, after the Revolution, he 
again appeared on ithe political itaye as 
member of parliament for Ludlow. His 
election was eppofed, but confirmed by a 
committee of the Houfe of Commons in 
'1690.. Colonel Titus died at the clofe of 
the ieventeenth century. Betides his 
.traét abovementioned, malnen is written in 
2 remarkably vigorous +{tyle, feveral 
{peeches ef his are in print ; ; and he af- 
fifted Dr. Perimchief in his Hiltory of 
Charles the Virtt, particularly with refpect 
to the two lait. years of that monarch’s 
eventful life, 
p a 
70 the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHOULD be ver y much oat to 
any of your numerous corre{ponylents 
who could inform me, through the me- 
dium of your valuable Mifcellany, what 
prince or potentate firlt addreffed him- 
felf to his fubjeéts in the plaral number, 
as we always fee in Proclamations; and 
how long it has been’ the practice. of 
our, Kings’ printers, .to print fuch pro- 
nouns with a capital letter, in the man- 
ner in which it is the cuitom only to de- 
ignate THz SuPREME Brine? 
Whitehall, INQUISITOR. 
December 8, 1806. 
For the. Monthly Magazine. 
Account of the extraordinary EFFECTS 
of a late. EARTHQUAKE in CALABRIA, 
illujirated by @ COPPER-PLATE. 
Tis generally known with how much 
accuracy Sur William Hamilton and M. 
-Dolomieu have defcribed the earth- 
quakes that have fo often defolated 
Calabria ; but. neither of them has 
fuper- added engravings, fo as to faci- 
Iitate the comprehenfion of the deferip- 
tions given in their works. This defici- 
ency ihave endeavoured to fupply, by 
giving a fketch, taken on the fpot, about 
feven years aiter that dreadful event. 
.When travelling through Calabria, I was 
ftruck with the appearance of the enor 
-mous mafies of matter which had been 
difplaced, as well as with the variety of 
their forms, and their perfect preferva- 
5 /Moyzary Mag. No. 18 33. 
Effects of a late Earthquake in Calabria. 
vitited Galabria, 
os 
tion. I there beheld the’exaét refemblance 
of thofe mountains, the principal forms 
of which, feveral naturalifts, and parti- 
cularly Deluc, attribute to the effect 
of ifimilar occurrences, while others af- 
cribe them, but in my opinion errone- 
oully, to the erofion of water, Hence I 
‘conceived, it might prove ufeful to give 
an outline of thefe matics, which though 
not of equal magnitude as the mountains 
in queftion, have neverthelefs afflumed, 
under our own eyes, forms, fimilar to 
theirs. 
The object of the prefent Memoir is 
not to explain, by fuch events, all the 
caufes of the inequalities of our globe, 
which are perhaps principally attribut- 
able to cryttallization, and other circum= 
ftances; I conceive, however, I may be 
able to ‘thow, that the original inequali- 
ties of the earth have not only been 
greatly modiiied by the finkings and dif- 
@uption of its furface, but that many of 
them have been actually produced, either 
while the parts were in the act of confo- 
Jidation, or after they had. attained their 
complete, coniiftence. 
Secondary rocks, 
and efpecially thofe of a full more recent 
date, afford frequent iluftrations of this 
‘truth, | 
This was. alfo the opinion formed. by 
Dolowieu, when, afew years after having 
he travelled over the 
Alps. This celebr ated geologitt has 
dince frequently mentioned te mein con- 
veriation, that be had obferved nothing 
which more fatisfactorily explained. the 
fantaftic forms often aflumed by moun- 
tains, the unequal inclination of their 
firata, and the diflimilarity between. the 
angles of. great vallies, than the above 
theor Ve 
In order to form a Dot judg lement 
on the prefent fubject, it is neceflary to 
enter into fome details, and particularly 
-to recall to mind the principal facts which 
we owe to this enlightened philofopher. 
It mutt, doubtlefs, “be difcovered, after 
an attentive perufal of thefe obfervations, 
that my pencil has failed to convey an 
adequate idea of the fubjeét; if however 
my feeble efforts can contribute to fix, 
in the memory, a few important phano- 
mena, they may not prove wholly ufelefs. 
It ought to be premifed, that Dolomieu 
did not difcover the fmalleft traces. of 
volcanoes in any of the countries which 
had fuffered by earthquakes. THe neither 
beheld lava, tufa, fcoriz, nor bitumens 
of any kind. 
Dolomieu obferves, that in the conti~ 
) huation 
