434 
of from 18 .to $0. Every man must 
measure five feet two inches. He must 
be able to read and write; have been 
apprenticed at least fur two years to 
the trades of bricklayer, carpenter, tiler, 
plumber, joiner, coachmaker, locksmith, 
sadler, or-basketmaker, and he must pos- 
SESS a ‘vod eliaracter. - 
Though many attempts have been made 
in the city of Pari is, both before and after 
the revolution, as well as under the pre- 
sent inperial government, to establish 
institutions for insuring buildings and. 
property, similar to those which are the 
pride of London, yet whether it is that 
the people of Paris have no favourable 
opinion of the integrity of the monied 
interestgor that they place implicit con- 
fidence in the skul of their firemen, these 
institutions have never been crowned 
with success. . 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Megaznne. 
SER, 
e Y may benew to your ingenious corres- 
pondent Zenas, but, uper enquiry, le 
will lindd believe) that ther arlatiou which 
be proposes (vole xxii. p. 435) in the artho- 
graphy of the words exceed, proceed, and 
sueceed, was introduced by no less a wri- 
ter aye Conyers Middleton, author 
of the Life of Cicero, &c. but without any 
permanent eifect. ‘There is a vexatious 
perrerseness im this want of analogy, 
which more or less pervades our lan- 
gaze, and which, I fear, is incorrigible. 
ihe same eminent authority, on the 
same principle, would have 2 
the words evelame, explane, &c. omit- 
nag the 2, as forming no part of the ori- 
gmail Latin word; but the practice died 
w:th himself, Inthe words ancient, pro- 
nunceution, and others which have obvi- 
gusly come to us by the strictly geogra- 
phical route. of France, it may still, be 
donbtful whether the Gailic c or the Ro- 
nan ¢ should be preferred; and_yet, in 
such a word and its derivativ es, 
which may perhaps decide the question, 
we Cannot hesitate about adopting the 
former. 
There is such a prejudice (perhaps 
your Correspondent ‘ A Subscriber’, 
who dates from St. Paul’s Coffee-house, 
p- 451, may call -it “a vexatious per- 
verseness,”}—in favour of Latin mottos 
to seals, &c. that I would venture to re- 
commend for that of the Philanthropic 
Society, with a double reference (both to 
the exiled convict and his protected 
et ae ee ae 
as vile 
Answer toa Query concerning Lady Vane. 
[June }, 
‘¢ Inutilesque amputans feliciores inserit.” 
Tam aware that the latter part is (very 
happily) adopted fer the Jenneriam seal : 
but that surely does not preclude a diife- 
rent. adaptation of it for a stil higher 
process; by which, if I may venture upon 
the metaphor, the ‘whole kingdonr itself 
is morally vaccinated at once. 
T open my note to say, that in your 
last number but one (vol. xxii. p. 355), 
in Memoirs of Lord Thurlow, there is a 
mistake or two deserving of correction. 
Dr. Smith, the master of Caius Col- 
lege, Cambridge, died in 1795, and was 
-succeeded by Dr. Belward. Dr. Davy 
succeeded the latter. 
In the next page, Lord Walsipgham’s 
family name is De Grey, not “Delpez. 
The query at p. 354, relative to the 
barbarous practice of boiling iobsters 
alive remails unanswered. 
FL RSS. 
Eo 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING seen in your entertaining 
H M agazine for April, a second 
query concerning lady Vane, whose Me- 
moirs are said to have been inserted im 
Peregrine Pickle, give me leave to inform 
you what [know about her. Inthe year 
1771 (i was then a young girl, and on a 
party of plessure with some friends at 
March’s, Maidenhead-bridge), in the 
mouth of August, when, girl-like; we were ° 
watching at the window to see who came 
to the Inn, a coach stopped, and a lady 
was litted out between two men. The 
singularity of her appearance attracted our 
notice: her face appeared as in a mask, 
I suppose from paint. When the waiter 
came in, we enquired who this extraor- 
dinary personage was, and were told it- 
was the formerly muck admired Lady 
Vane, who resided in complete retirement 
a few miles from that spot; that she was 
entirely nursed and attended by men; 
had lost the use.of her limbs; and that 
her only recreation was to come to that 
inn, which she did occasionally, and was 
obliged to have a bed an the grounds 
floor; and that she sat up most af the night, 
and drank a great deal of wine and spirits. 
Some years after, being in that neigh- 
bourhood, “I enquired aiter. the unfortu- 
nate lady, aud heard that she died a few 
months after I had seen her : so Tsuppose 
she was buried near the same spot. I 
then heard the name of the place, bak 
have quite forgot ite 
_ Lam, your's, &e, CoP: 
FLY “rine 
