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to 281. for refuse, and 141. for half cargo. Price of herrings from 20 to 255. per barrel. One and a half bushel, or 84lb. falt required for each barrel packed for the Weft Indies; Portugal falt 41. per ton; barrels coft from 4 to 5s. each. Season for fifhing, November and December.

Yarmouth has now nothing to do with the white herring fifhery, having made the experiment and failed: but with Loweftoff, confidered as the principal place for red herrings in the world; 30 or 40 years ago, the export has amounted to 70,000 barrels, chiefly up the ftreights; and 3 or 400 veffels have been employed. In 1793, about 10,000 barrels might be exported; none of fignification fince. In 1798, only about. 34 boats, and 30 cobles, from the coaft of Yorkshire employed; the whole catch about 12,000 barrels for home confumption: price of 1ft fort, 45s. 2d fort, 30s. and 3d fort, 20s. per barrel. This is the only deep fea fishery in the kingdom, and which is therefore the best nursery for feamen. The boats carry 11 and 12 men, and are worth, with their appurtenances, 1000l. Their fishery is throughout the ftormy months of October and November, from Yarmouth to the Channel. Bounty 20s. per ton, and 18. per barrel; for export is. gd. Dover and Haftings, &c. employ about 20 boats: finaller herrings redded for the home confumption, but never for export. The war is a deadly blow to this fishery, which is only upheld by the bounty.

Yarmouth, Jan. 11, 1799.

For the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

SIR,

HAVING for fome years paid confiderable attention to fubjects connected with the police of this country, I tranfmit you a gloffary of the principal terms now ufed in the thieving world; perfuaded that the publishing it in your extenfively circulated Magazine would be ferviceable to the public in general; and particularly ufeful in the examination and detection of thieves, to gentlemen in the commiffion of the peace, refiding at a distance from the metropolis. I remain, Sir, with refpect, A CONSTANT READER.

PRIGS-Thieves.

Files or Knuckles-Pickpockets.
Lifts-Shop lifters.
Houle-breaking-Milling of Kens
Public-honie for Thieves-A Flash Ken.
A Lobb full of Glibbs-A box full of rib-

bons.

A Rum Beak-A good Juftice. A Quare Beak-A bad Juftice.

A Scribing Gloak to the Beak—A Clerk to a Justice.

A Horney-A Conftable.
A Scout--A Watchman.
A Quad Cull, and a Dubb Cull-A Gaoler
and a Turnkey

A Rifpin-A Bridewell.
A Craping Cull-A Hangman.
A Sneak for Chinks or Feeders-A Thief
for Tankards or Spoons.
Nix in whideling-Don't fpeak.
Tip us your fain-Give us your hand.
A Coaping Cull-A Horfe-jockey.
Pafing Quare Blunt, or Smashing-Paffing
bad Money.

Scamping on the Panny-Going on the
Highway to rob.

Fencing of Prads-Selling of Horses.
A Brace of Pops, or Barking Irons-A
Pair of Piftols.

To Glee the Rattler-To notice a Coach on the Road.

Mill the Cull to his long lib-Kill the Man you rob.

Mill the rattling Gloke-Kill the Coach

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I have received my Patter-I have had my Trial.

I am down for my Scrag―I am to be hanged.

I am to be legg'd-I am to be tranfported. I napt the Flog at the Tumbler-I was whipt at the Cart's Tail.

A Dark Glim-A Dark lanthorn.

Our Fence is grabbed-Our receiver of
Stolen Goods is apprehended.
Let us pike to the Start-Let us go to Lon-
don.

Let us pike to the Spell-Let us go to the
Play.

'Tis a rum Darky, and Oliver fhorus

It is a good Night, and the Moon fhines, Doufe the Glimms-Put out the Candles. Mill his Nob-Break his Head. Chive bis Munns-Cut his Face. My Homoney is in Quod-My Wife is in Gaol.

Tip me your Chive-Give me your Knife. He kaps, be buffs, be mounts-Synonimous terms for he wears falfely.

I am very feedy-I am very poor. Napping a Peter-Cutting a Trunk from a Carriage.

Draving a Reader with Bank Screens-Stealing a Pocket-book with Bank

notes.

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It is not my intention to enter very minutely into the fubject of this debate; but the intereft of the public is too deeply concerned to allow of its being lightly paffed over; the decifion of this question is of the utmost importance, and cannot be fcrutinised with more attention than it deferves; it is alone from a fenfe of profef. fional duty, I venture to ftate what at prefent appears to me to be the refult of all the obfervations which have been made by thofe practitioners who have fo laudably and zealously pursued the enquiry.

It is now more than five years ago, that Mr. William Scott, of Bombay, propofed to cure the Lues Venerea, by fubftituting the acid of nitre instead of mercury. The principles upon which he introduced this remedy, and the unqualified terms in which he recommended its ufe, inclined various medical practitioners in Europe and America to make an experimental enquiry into its merits. Several gentlemen of rank and reputation in their profeffion, have taken a more than ordinary degree of pains to examine this fubject: among whom I particularly name Dr. Rollo, of Woolwich; Dr. Beddoes, of Clifton; and Mr. Blair of London. Although a cloud of witneffes have teftified the good effects of the oxygenated medicines in fome ftates of the Lues Venerea, it is difputed by men of unimpeached character, fkill, and probity, whether they may be juftifiably de

pended on alone, especially in the more advanced ftages of this infidious complaint. The following is, I believe, a juft account of the controverfy, as it has been impartially reprefented by Mr. Blair. This gentleman, with much ability and candour, has brought into a luminous point of view, all the exifting facts, both for and against the new mode of treatment. (See the first of his Effays on the Venereal Disease). Upon the whole he ftates, that the generality of the cures adduced in favour of the acids, &c. are not fuch as an impartial obferver would felect as the most unequivocal: It is therefore to be doubted, he thinks, whether the cures ought to be admitted as finally conclufive.

Again, a great number of perfons treated by Dr. Girdleftone of Yarmouth, Mr. Benjamin Bell of Edinburgh, and other eminent practitioners (not to mention his own patients at the Lock Hofpital and Finfbury Difpenfary), experienced an actual increase of the venereal fymptoms, during the careful exhibition of thefe remedies: from hence he infers, with much plaufibility on his fide, that the fuccessful trials alledged by Dr. Rollo and Dr. Beddoes, are probably fallacious. Dr. Rollo has given the refult of more than 150 cafes and experiments, conducted by the Surgeons of the Royal Artillery Hofpital; and is decidedly of opinion, that the new remedies are more fafe and certain than mercury, in every stage of this disease. Dr. Beddoes, with his ufual industry, has likewife colle&ed a large body of evidence from different parts of the kingdom, which he couceives will go a great way toward establishing the efficacy of thefe remedies (parti. cularly the acid of nitre), both in primary and fecondary fymptoms of fyphilis; to this collection I have contributed my mite. This ingenious phyfician has also announced, that he is on the eve of publishing another collection of cafes, ftill better calculated to prove his former fuggestions, beyond all reasonable controversy.

Amidst all the uncertainty in which the fubject is involved, I am happy to learn (by a late advertisement) that Mr. Blair ftill perfeveres in his defign of accumulating additional evidence, from private as well as public fources; and I cannot doubt but the fubject will be fully clucidated by his unremitting enquiries.

Before I conclude, allow me to make a few obfervations in anfwer to your correfpondent N. at Bristol, of last month, on the subject of the propriety of admi mistering vomits in cafes of fufpended ammation. If, with all his chemical know

ledge

Fedge of the properties of the different gafes (but particularly that of oxygen) he cannot comprehend the existence of a fact admitted by all enlightened philofophers of the prefent day, viz. that fubHances, fuch as the oxydes of mercury, zinc, &c. do contain oxygenous matter in folution, and that by a chemical procefs which takes place in the stomach, and which is admirably calculated to

excite our admiration and anfwer our

defigns, do readily impart this vivifying principle to ftimulate the vital organs, it is not for me to spend that time in anfwering fuch fuperficial queries, which require only a flight knowledge of phiTofophical chemistry to folve, and which might be more ufefully employed in the exercife of my profeffional duties. Commend to his attention the following celebrated Italian proverb, "A caufa perfa parole affai."

I re

Ely Place, Holborn, Your much obliged, January 12, 1799

CHS. BROWN.

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Slides into verfe, and edges into rhyme," &c. With all due deference however to the Tearned emendator, whofe accuracy and acumen in refearches of this nature are very generally and gratefully acknowledged and admired, and whofe productions in facred and profane criticiin have rendered a lafting fervice to the cause of piety and general literature, I cannot help, in this particular inftance, calling in queftion the juftness of this or indeed of any other verbal alteration as neceffary to be adopted in the verfe alluded to.

I fhall briefly explain the reafons why I think myfelf warranted to retain the reading as it now ftands. To form a proper and determinate judgment on the fubject, the paffage, I prefume, fhould be taken in connexion with the fcope and

context.

Who e'er offends, at fome unlucky time Slides into verfe and hitches in a rhyme; Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burden of fome merry fong. So fang the English poet, with ftrength and fpirit, a familiar eafe, a grace, a beautiful abruptnefs, fcarcely, if imitation. at all, interior to the glorious object of his

The drift of the paffage will appear, I think, fufficiently obvious, and we shall hardly mistake the poet's meaning, if, adopting the definition of the word in queftion precifely as given by Dr. Johnson

and Mr. WAKEFIELD himfelf*, we conceive the CAUSE to be put here for the EFFECT, by a common figure of rhetoric, viz. "HITCHES'in a rhyme," for "STUMBLES in a rhyme," &c. This or fomehad his mind, from his touching next on thing like it, the poet muft certainly have the RIDICULE CONSEQUENT to SUCH a fentiments freely, the "SACRED TO RISITUATION; or rather, to express my DICULE his whole life long," &c. may be confidered as a further and even complete elucidation of this conftruction of the paffage.

I am greatly mistaken if one of our most elegant and graceful writers, whofe fuperior tafte and judgment no perfon will call in queftion, is not exactly of the fame opinion as myself, with respect to the figurative fenfe and acceptation in which the word is here ufed. According to Mr. MELMOTH,+there is not only a pertinency, but even a peculiar aptnefs, a curious felicity in the phrafe;-obviously, I should think, understanding the word "hitch" in the extenfive fenfe above mentioned.

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I have no particular fault to find with "edge," as fubftituted for "hitch," provided the line were to run edges in a rhyme," and not "edges into rhyme," &c.; unlefs that in poetry, the change of only a fyllable or two tometimes produces a very unpleafant fenfation on the ear, and affects the harmony of the numbers! Of this, however, poets themselves are probably the belt judges-This fame unpleafant fenfation is not a little increased, by the word "into" occurring twice in the fame line, according to Mr.WAKEFIELD'S correction-and which may be juftly * "TO HITCH." To catch, to move by jerks. Johnfon.

Hitch is ufed in the northern counties, for getting into a place fideways, with difficulty and contrivance. In many parts of England, it is cuftomary to fay, that "one fubftance bitches on another," meaning, that it catches on the edges, or protuberances, of another. Mr. *Pope's Imitations of Horace, book ii. fat. I. WAKEFIELD. ver. 77.

Peace is my dear delight, not Fleury's moreBut touch me--and no minifter fo fore

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+ See the Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzofborne. objected

objected to, (if I may venture to diffent in opinion from fo great an authority) as not being in the manner of Pope.

I am unable to discover clearly the real import of "edges INTO rhyme;" it appears, however, to differ confiderably from that light and sportive idea which a STUMBLE and a FALL, efpecially in the rhyming part of a poet's bufinels, (after SLIDING into it with all the ealy freedom and fancy of one who mistakes the illuLons of vanity for the infpiration of the mufe), expresses with fuch peculiar and eminent propriety: this whimsical and ludicrous idea, which conftitutes, it fhould feem, the principal beauty of the verfe, and in which the effence and pointdnefs of its humour confifts, is, by the fubftitution of the two words above mentioned, completely fet afide and done

away.

Many words which have become obfolete in fome parts of the country, are retained in others. This I conceive to be more particularly the cafe with refpe&t to the word "hitch." I fcarcely remember to have met with it any where, in common ufe, at any fubfequent period of my life; but think I recollect perfectly well, even now, its being familiarly ufed at a school, (in Kingfwood Foreft, about three miles from the city of Bristol) where I refided many years ago. The inhabitants of that district, as a late writer in the Monthly Magazine obferves, "fpeak a language that is peculiar to themselves, and perfectly unintelligible to a ftranger.'

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Should any of your intelligent correfpondents, who may have confidered this very curious paffage more attentively than I have, be diffatisfied with the above mentioned explanation of it, it is to he hoped they will communicate, through the channel of your useful Magazine, any further information leading to the more perfect knowledge of a word, which, according to his own confeffion, exercifed the penetration even of Dr. Johnfon-Or if any of your numerous provincial readers can fuggeft any novel or various tation of which the word "hitch" is fufceptible, their communications will no doubt be entitled to refpectful notice, as they may ferve to throw fome additional light on the fubject.

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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

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SIR,

Teems to be your chief concern to render your Magazine useful; perhaps, therefore, you will do me the favour to infert a hint. One great deji

deratum with young ftudents of hiftory is, the means of calily and immediately connecting the geography of the ancient and modern world. This might be effected by maps printed with ink of different colour. On common charts we fee the boundaries of diftinct countries shaded with various colours; and nothing further would be neceffary to avoid the contution arising from the interfection of independent and unconnected lines of demarcation. The names of the principal towns might be distinguished in like manner. Such maps would not require a very expenfive execution, as they would be mere links to connect iuperior atlafles of both kinds: they would be fingularly useful in elementary and school-compilations.-Mem. Ought not our gazetteers for general ufe to include the ancient names of places?

Aito a query fubmitted to your legal correfpondents, but interefting to all political philofophers: "Do the annals of our criminal jurisprudence contain any infance of a conviction and EXECUTION for MURDER by DUEL, where the party has behaved according to the generally received maxims of Lonour ? Should no inftance occur, now itriking a proof will it be of the inefficacy of law opposed to manners!!! Yours, &c. December 1798.

H. C. R.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

SIR,

DOUBT not but from the impar

tiality you have difcovered, you will be ready to contribute towards the expofing of impofture and the defence of an injured body of men, by inferting the following:

There is a man, who ftyles himself the Rev. DAVID RIVERS, who has published a pamphlet full of the groffeft abuse of the proteftant diffenters. The piece is too contemptible in itself to deferve notice: But it has been railed into fome degree of importance by the account given of it ARTHUR KERSHAW. in fome party-publications. Be to good

Hoxton, January 15.

MONTHLY Mag. No. XLI.

as to inform your numerous readers, that this Rev. DAVID RIVERS is not, and never was acknowledged by the body of minifters,

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AVING been in the habit of con

H fidering it as a maxim, that falling

bodies take a direction perpendicular to the horizon, I was confiderably surprised on obferving the refult of fome experiments by M. GULIELMINE, as ftated by LALANDE, in the Hiftory of Aftronomy for 1797, and communicated in your laft number, (page 328), in which it is afferted, that bodies fell eight lines and a half to the eaft of the plumb-line, from a height of 247 feet.

The name of LALANDE almost induces me to fufpect that I am miftaken; yet the diffidence excited by his extended and justly-acquired celebrity, will not juftify the renunciation of a principle fo important, without the fuperior authority of conviction.

Falling bodies are generally under!tood to be acted upon, and to have their motion determined by, gravity only. This force acting upon bodies, impels them towards the center of gravity; and, if no other caufe be combined with it, will determine them towards that point by the shortest way; that is, on right lines. A right line from the circumference to the center must be perpendicular to the horizon, unless it be demonstrated that gravity and the earth have different centers: and hence it feems pretty clearly deducible that bodies, in their defcent to the muth, move in perpendicular lines,

If, in the experiments of M. GULIELMINE, the falling bodies were found eight lines and a half to the eat of the plumb-line, I fhould fuppofe either that the point at which their defcent commenced did not accurately coincide with the upper end of the plumb-line, or that the plumb-line itfelf was not perpendicular; or, laftly, that fome fecondary caufe mult have intervened to give the line of their defcent a diverging from the plumb-line. In the latter cale, it will be worth inquiring, what that fecondary caufe is? If falling bodies do not defcribe perpendicular lines, how can it be demonftrated that plumb-lines will stand perpendicular?

How does the fact of bodies falling to the east of the plumb-line, if admitted, prove the motion of the earth? as LALANDE afferts. If they had fallen to the west, the inference would be more natural; but even in that cafe, it would demand a very critical inveftigation, before it could be confiftently denominated a proof.

Having ftated the cafe with its difficulties, allow me to folicit the attention

of your philofophical readers to the fub

ject; and in the confidence of their fcience, candour, and readiness to oblige, to expect that fatisfactory information which will highly gratify, Sir, your occafional correfpondent, and humble fervant, Bath, Dec. 12, 1798.

T. P.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine,

SIR,

You OU were certainly perfectly right in inferting, in your Magazine, Mr. Horfey's letter, refpecting the diffolution of the Northampton academy. The manner in which public trufts are difcharged, is undoubtedly proper fubject of public inveftigation. But though Mr. Horfey may have fufficiently vindicated his own conduct, the whole bufinefs relative to the diffolution of the Northampton academy, and Mr. Coward's truft, feems not yet to have been fatisfactorily explained. ́Another bufinefs, in which the Diffenters are concerned, and which requires fome public investigation, is the diftribution of the re gium donum. It is a fingular and curious circumftance, that the perfon who is the principal, if not the fole dift: ibutor of the regium donum, though a diffenting minister, and minifter of a congregation in London, is not now a member of the general body

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