322 
Defence of Wie 
by way of the Black Sea, it extended i its 
Sphere and its operations. 
By this treaty the Ruiians are sieea | 
a free trade and navigation in all the do- 
minions of the Grand Signior ; the Porte 
confents that they fhall enjoy the fame 
apnrach as otier nations in treaty with 
3 the duty on merchandize imported and 
phe by the Ruflians is reduced to 
three per cent.,; it is farther ftipulated 
that the form and the burden of Ruffian 
veflels pafiing through the Canal at Cone 
fiantinople fhall be Grnilar to thele of the 
French and Englifh fhips ; that if one of 
the contraéting powers fhould be involved 
in war, the fudjects of the other may con- 
tinue to frequent the ports of her enemy, 
provided they were not laden wich ammu- 
nition or warlike ftores. The following 
year the Miniter from the Court of Vien- 
na to that of Conftantinople folicited and 
cbtained the fame conceftions from the 
Porte for Auftrian fubjects trading i in the 
dominicns of the Grand Signior. 
Notwithftanding the fuccefs of wh'ch 
the author gives an account ; notwithe 
ftandisg the rifing profperity of the com- 
merce between France and Ruffia | by. the 
Black Sea ; notwithftanding the favours 
and encouragements beflowed by the Em- 
prefs on the eftablifhments formed in her 
Se sein Pi by HOrcienrts. —the navigation 
f the Black Sea, opened to the Ruflians 
Bie Auftrians, ‘was forbidden to the 
French flag. It was abfclutely necelfary 
to remove this bar to their commerce, or 
to renounce the hopes arifing from fuch a 
fortunate beginning. To effect thts pur- 
pofe M. de St. Prieft in vain employed 
his talents, his credit, and his influence ; 
and it was. not till after the efiabitfhment 
of the Confulur Government that the 
French were allowed to participate in this 
advantage. 
—=== 
To the Editor of the Montbly Magazine. 
SiR; 
WAS not alittle furprifed at reading 
in your lat Magazine what a corre- 
fpondent of the. name of “ G. HJE.™ 
cails an anecdote connected with the fame 
of the great Haydn. It was a remark 
made by an aathor of confiderable emi- 
nence, that a man never wrote the worfe 
for apt fome knowledge of the fubjeét 
on which he was writing; and it would 
have been as well if your correfpondent 
had taken advantage of this hint. That 
aman of Clementi’s tranicendant talents 
and great reputation faould be capable of 
— Polacca®’ evita 
[May 1, 
impofing upon the public the work of any 
other manas his own, is hardly reccnei es 
able to common fenfe; but that he fi ould 
be fo beggariy, fo poor in {pirit, as to 
thieve the renown of the bare adzptation 
of an air, could never, I believe, have 
entered any other head bur that of 
‘¢©G. H.E.” Had he made the leait im. 
quiry, he would have found that the work 
he mentions was publifhed in London be- 
fore it was publiihed in Vienna; and that 
Haydn holds Clementi in fo high eftima- 
tion, that on being once afked why he did 
not ac pi his great work of the “ Crea- 
tion’’ for the piano- forte, he demanded, 
with furprife, if the inqui ‘rer did not 
know it had al: eady| been done by Clemen- 
ti? If, therefore, Haydn confidered him 
fo pre- eminently capable of doing all that 
could be done with his moft important 
works, the public will eafily give him cre- 
‘dit for having executed the ‘work which 
your correfpondent fo unadvifedly confi-— 
ders a plagiarifm. “The very circum- 
fiance of its publication at Clementi and 
Co.’s warehoufe, ought to have made hia 
fulpect the depth of his own fagacity ; for 
was it a thing in the fmalleft degree’ pro- 
bable; that men who, from their conti- 
nual publication of Haydn’s works, muft, 
undoubtedly, have an intimate correfpond- 
ence with him, would, in {pte of com- 
mon prudeace, in the very face of the 
living Haydn, and with an utier difre- 
gard to the réputation of their abfent 
partner, make fo filly an at'empt to im- 
pofe upon the public ia a matter of fo lit- 
tle confequence, and where detection was 
infallible. It is dificult to refrain frem 
intemperance of expreffion when one fees 
a perion meddling with the reputation of 
a man {fo worthily efteemed for nis extraor- 
dinary talents, upon fuch futile and fhal= 
low Pindatiane: ; and this muft plead my 
excufe for at all troubling you with an 
aniwer toa thing otherwile too unimport- 
ant to have been noticed by 
A FRienD oF CLEMENTI. 
— 
To sag es of the Monthly Magaxine. 
F i Da ‘HE’ word ‘* Polacca,”? (See Note in 
p- 204 of laft monti’s Mag.,) fre- 
quently found in pieces of mufic, 1s imply 
ie Italian for Polith. Iv implies aria 
(tune): Avia Polacca, a Polith air; or 
Idovimento (movement) + Movimento Po- 
lacco, a Polith movement; and is no: hing 
more than an adjective uled fubftantively« 
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