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that his Lordfhip’s fyftem is not a new 
difcovery.—Now, in no part of my ob- 
fervations will he find any fuch affertion ; 
being {fo far of a contrary opinion, that 
I believe the idea of bi-equal thirds never. 
entered into the imagination of any 
other perfon befides that of his Lordfhip. 
I have indeed exprefled myfelf thus, 
(vide Mag. Nov. p. 350): “ that Lord 
Stanhope undertakes to fhew that there 
are five wolves, as if it-were a new dif- 
covery.’ 
his new fyitem of temperament, but only 
to the evils he wiihes to remedy, which 
(as I juft afterwards obferved) “ mutt 
have been always obvious to every tuner, 
although only one of them has been 
found ‘od offenfive to the ear as to be ftig- 
matifed with fo reproachful a term as 
that of the wolf.” 
And this brings me to the next farcafm 
of the Doétor’s, namely, that “ I have 
found out that the term wolf is a figma 
oi reproach ;” as if I had mentioned as 
a new difcovery a thing that muft be ob- 
vious to every body, or that the words 
jet above-meutioned would. bear any 
fuch interpretation. 
As to the lait paffage he has referred 
to, ‘that glee-fingers may fink a femi- 
tone without the leat degree of altera- 
tion in the temperament, &c.” I am at 
a lofs to conceive tor what purpoie he 
has quoted it, as] have no idea that he 
can mean to queftion the truth of that 
remark; and though I afferted it by way 
of argument, | by no means ftated it as 
any thing newly found out, as the Doétor 
feems to infinuate. / 
Upon the whole, as I profefs myfelf to 
be open to conviction, I fhall very rea- 
dily, when injluenced by Dr. Calleott’s 
arguments in his intended publication, 
give up my prefent opinion, and become 
a convert to his Lordthip’s fyftem. I. 
am indeed glad to find that the Doétor 
-is himfelf goiwg to write upon the fub- 
ject, -as from the fpecimens he has given 
of his erudition in his Mutical Grammar, 
and former numerous publications, I 
have no doubt of his treating it in an 
ingenious and fcientific manner. But 
furely, for his own fake, he might. have 
announced his work without reflecting 
apon the remarks of others, or at leatt 
without imifreprefenting them. XYZ. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N your Magazine for November, p. 
354, there are three important quetti- 
Answer to atrifling Querist. 
But this reters to no part of 
{March 1, 
ons propofed, by three ingenious correfpon- 
dents: a queftion of lazw, relative to the 
nuifance of a bee-hive; a queftion of 
humanity, relative to the ikinning of 
live eels; and a queftion of pathology, 
relative to the inconveniences and dif- 
orders commonly arifing from the attacks 
of “that troublefome little animal the 
flea.” It is to the lafé of thefe I fhall 
confine my prefent obfervations. 
Your correfpondent begins with fup- 
pofing, that the fuffermgs he endures are 
common to men; or, to ule his own ele- 
gant exprefion, that he is, in this re- 
fpect, “ like other folks.” He need not, 
however, have urged this upon fappofi- 
tion only; itis a clear and eftablifhed 
fae. If we confult the hittories of Eu- 
rope, Afia, Africa, or America, we {hall 
find, that thefe powerful marauders have 
eftablifhed themfelves in every quarter. 
In fome parts they are more endemial, 
and at fome feafons more vigorous and 
virulent, than in others; efpecially in 
the countries about-the equator, or be- 
tween the tropics. Dr. Smollet hath in- 
formed us, that in the enchanting cli- 
mate of Italy their numbers are imcal- 
culable, and that their effects are afto- 
nifhing in happily preventing the inha- 
bitants from falling into fomnoleneies or 
lethargies. But we do not find, that 
the mott northern climates are deftitute 
of their occafional vifitations. 
The particular queries propofed by. 
your correfpondent, relative to this in- 
fect, are “ What will prevent, or ce- 
firoy its effect?” and “ What will cure. 
after it has wounded '” 
As to the firft, it does not appear to 
be ftrictly logical, taken as a whole, and 
conneéted with the fecond: for to alk. 
what will deftroy its effect? is the fame. 
thing as to afk what will cure after it 
has wounded? or, ia the language of 
the fchools, the queftions are fynonimous, 
and the one merges into the other. The 
firtt query, therefore, fhould have been 
only this, “*.What will prevent the ate. 
tack of the flea” or the ill confequences. 
arifing from his actual feizure? 
Now, Sir, m anfwer to this, you wall, 
not do me the injuftice to imagine that 
I mean to propofe any advertiled or fe- 
cret nouftrum to lighten the. pockets of — 
your correfpondents, I am a mortal ene-- 
my to quackery ; and tincerely hope, that 
in the new bill, which you have informed 
us fume eminent phyticians are about to 
prefent to parliament, for the regulation 
of the practice of phylic, a clauie yin 
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