or true lunations in 19 years, called mean fynodic months; and the finds herself in conjunction exactly at the moment which clofes the 19 years, and in the fame perpendicular which at that moment interfects the centre of the Sun, Earth, and the World. The Moon has 12 lunations all but 11 days a year, which makes the mean fynodic month; I fay mean, because the fame terreftrial eccentricity, which produces the difference of true time from mean time, ought to caufe the fynodic month to be more or less variable, inafmuch as it is reckoned only from one conjunction to another. This variation, unknown before I had fixed my fyftem, and which alone can correct it in that refpect, has been the cause why the motion of the Moon has always deceived the obferva tion of every aftronomer, because the Moon was faid to be where the really was not. The quantity of this mean fynodic month confiffs of 29 d. 12h. 42. It is thus that, every month being different both by the preceffion and delay which proceeds from the eccentricity of the Earth, and by the-variation even of true time, we fhall be able to calculate to a nicety the paffage of this body through a terrestrial meri dian during the 19 years of a cycle; and the difference of this paffage in true time to the paffage of the fame planet through an unknown meridian will exactly give the longitude. This new method, the most precious refult of my fyftem, is lefs difficult than the prefent method from the diftance of the centre of the Moon to the centre of the Sun and Stars, because there is no correction to be made in the fimple paffage of the Moon through the meridian, and time is corrected. J. E. PELLIZER. Mr. URBAN, Aug. 14. IS it, Mr. Urban? because they confider it as a vilifying appellation, as a word long ufed by the vulgar in an opprobrious fenfe, that the adverfarics of Dr. Priestley and the Unitarian Diffenters generally chufe, like your correfpondent R. L. to diftinguish them by the name of Prefbyterians a name which might be applied to the members of the Church of England themselves with no greater impropriety than to any fect of English Disenters; all of whom, lorying in their liberty, rejoice alike heir freedom from the defpotic fway of pifcopal government, and the no lefs burdenfome yoke of Prefbyterian... ariftocracy. Whether Dr. Priestley ftill retains that warm admiration of the British Conftitution which he formerly profeffed, or whether his experience of the inefficacy of its laws to afford him either protec tion or redrefs may not have abated his regard for fome of the appendages, and limited his attachment to its general principles only, I fhall not attempt to decide; neither is it my intention to enter the lifts, in his defence. I ball only obferve to R. L. that his quotations are not always warranted by his references; and that, if Dr. P. has ever charged "the Church of England with being ready to drink the blood of Unis tarian martyrs," it is not in p. 15 of the Dedication to his Appeal, to which we are referred; neither ought the circumftance, fo flightly related by Dr, P, of an epithet applied to him in an argument by one of his friends, to hate been exaggerated into "uniformly profeffing himfelf a rigid, Trinitarian' in politicks," for the purpofe of forming a ftrong.contraft with other parts of his writings, in order to fhew his 'inconfiftency. Dr. P. has avowed his with, "that the kingdom of God and of Chrift may fully come, though all the kingdoms of the world be removed to make way for it." Such an event would, in R. L's imagination, be attended with fo much confufion, that, in his horror of revo lutions, he feems to with that it may never come at all, at least upon those conditions. And, indeed, if the ConAtitution of any country be fo very corrupt, that the kingdom of God cannot be eftablished without its utter overthrow, a good-natured Chriftian, whatever his religion might prescribe, might well fhudder whenever he repeated the Lord's Prayer; but, entertaining a better opinion of the British Conftitution myfelf, and not confidering the two kingdoms to be fo utterly incompatible as not to be capable of fubfifting toge. ther, I can chearfully join in Dr. P's prayer, without fearing thofe "dreadful and bloody" confequences which R. L. feems to anticipate from fuch an event. By a manifeft perverfion of a strong. expreffion quoted from Dr. P. for which (could it bear the meaning he has affixed to it) it is plain no other perfon could be refponfible, he has reprefented the Unitarians as a body of men fo void of of refpe&t for the government of this country, as to conceive King, Lords, and Commons, to be no better than a gang of rafcals and highwaymen; and, with the like candour, affirms that the modern Prefbyterian (by whom it is pretty evident he means the Unitarian Diffenters, however improperly that epithet be applied), having been taught from his infancy to follow truth, wherever it leads him," would "regard with indifference the downfall of all the kingdoms of the world;" a falfe and injurious inference! Truth may indeed lead to reform; yet, being, infeparable from juftice, can be promoted only by inftruction, and is alto. gether incompatible with violence and wrong. It is indeed probable that these indirect and unfounded accufations were defigned rather to exprefs his own diflike of Unitarians than to imprefs his readers with conviction. But, however harthly R. L. may judge of their principles, it is reform, and not revolution, that is their defire, as well as the prevailing with of the great body of the Diffenters. Friends to the true principles of the Conflitution, they are there fore enemies to its abufes, and their wish for reform is generated by their dread of revolution; but our enemies are confcious that we are unjustly treated, and therefore they conclude that we are difcontented and dangerous. It is true that, having failed in our application for the repeal of the Test A, and difappointed in the favourite object of our wishes, we continue, with the keeneft indignation as well as the most hopeless regret, to contemplate the operation of thofe impolitic and contumelious laws, by which we are treated like aliens in our own land; which weaken and divide human fociety, difturb and embitter the intercourfe of neighbours, and make, as it were, two nations out of one. Yet, thus limited and confined in our pursuits after wealth, and almoft wholly employed in trade and manufactures, we are not lefs the friends to order and good govern * An effe ulia major, aut infignor contumelia poteft, quam partem civitatis velut contaminatam haberi? Quid eft aliud quam exilium inter eadem moenia, quam relegationem pati?-Sic nos fub legis fuperbiflima vincula conjicitis, qua dirimatis focietatem civilem duafque ex una civitate faciatis. Liv. lib. IV. cap. IV. GENT. MAG. September, 1793. ment. Security for our good behaviour lies in your hands. Covered as the land is with our engines, our houses, our machines, and our manufactories, peace and tranquillity muft ever be our intereft and delight. If, therefore, from this quarter only they are apprehenfive of danger, both R. L. and his friend Mr. Burke may reft in Peace, and tranquillize their disturbed imaginations. "Lean and hungry-looking mortals" as we are, according to R. L's witty defcription, and with "faces, as it feems, indicative of nothing but plots" and confpiracies, our plumper brethren of the Etablished Church have but little to fear from us; nor, while they feel no hunger and thirft but after righteoufnefs only, need they be feared by the gaunt countenance of the most fierce and meagre-looking Unitarian. G. W. Two MONTHS TOUR IN SCOTLAND. (Continued from p. 707.) THE highways through almost the whole of Scotland, and entirely through the Highlands, are excellent; thefe laft have been made chiefly by the military ftationed there, in many places with infinite labour and expence, and in all of materials fo durable, that, being fubject to no heavy carriages, they can fcarcely ever fand in need of any confiderable repair; whilft not a fingle tollbar intercepts the traveller beyond Queensferry, or Dumbarton, to the Orkneys. The only halting-place from Invernefs to Fort Auguftus is at a mean hut by the way-fids, to which it would be wife to bring provifions, as we found ourselves under the neceflity of firt chafing down the poultry before they could be dreffed for dinner. After fuch a preface, it will hardly be expected that much should be faid in praife either of the delicacy of their flavour, or the manner in which they were dished up; but, in such fituations, air, exercife, a chearful party, and, above all, a determination not to be difconcerted by fuch trifles, give a zeft to every thing that offers. We had, befides, not come into the Highlands to regale our palates, but our eyes; and the profpe&t now before them was of a kind which even Apicius himself might have relibed, had his taste been for fuch fort of diet. Hence the road rifing gradually above the level of the Loch leads up to the fall of Fvers. Here it is that Nature feem. to to fit enthroned in aweful and untamed magnificence, No defcription of mine can convey an adequate idea of fuch an alfemblage of huge mis hapen rocks heaped confufedly on each other, inter fperfed with projecting Aumps, ragged boughs, and twifted toots of trees, increating by obftruction the foam and fury of the torrent, which headlong hurls itself amongst them. An antient native told us, that he did not remember fo dry a fummer fince that in which Queen Anne died. This circumftance, though, it had contributed to the comfort of our journey hitherto, was the occafion of fume diminution from our pleasure here, fince the body of water was confequently lefs; but the fcene was fill fublime, and the pencil of Salvator could only emulate its favage dig Bitv. Hence, bearing off towards the left from the border of Lochrefs, and winding over a country refembling that betwixt Bala and Feftining, in North Wales, the road conducts at length to ■ view of Loch Taarf, ftudded with Fittle tufted ifles, and fed by water-falls, which, rolling down from the heights on the left fide of the road, wear in their way deep and fhadowy delis, propitious to the growth of birches. It had been ufual with us to difpatch a fervant forward after dinner to fecure us the better accommodation at the inn where we purposed to ftay the night. There was a drearinefs, however, in this evening's flage, and a fufpicion as we thought, perhaps unjustly, in the manner of certain Highlanders, who feemed to rife fuddenly upon us from amongst the broom, which induced us not to lessen our firength by detaching from our number. Fort Auguftus ftands upon a flat at the termination of Lochnefs, and is neither confiderable for dimenfions or trength. From the heights above it the whole of Lochness, perfectly freight in itfelf, may be beheld at one view to the extent of twenty-four miles. ap Proceeding hence, the way lies along a valley to Loch Oich; which, in proaching it through a village, makes a pleafing appearance with its green and fhrubby ifles. Glen-Garrie, the feat of the Mac Donalds, an antient and even royal race, graces its farther fhore, and prefents itself very interestingly over a fore-ground of meadows diverfified with trees claiming, in this climate,, the dif tinctive epithets of large and tutely. Such unexpected mementos of elegant and polished life, amidst the frong and rugged traits of Nature, have an effect upon the mind to be duly estimated by experience only. Behind this manfion a mountainous and wild tract of country ftretches Weftward, whence the natives in great numbers had lately emigrated beyond the Atlantic, urged to it (in addition to the reafons aligned already) by the calamitous feverity of feveral fucceffive winters, by which their herds of cattle, their only wealth and hope, had been almost entirely detroved. ༄༄『 Onwards, and also beyond the Loch, is feen a ruined castle, the name of which I regret to have omitted noting down, fo finely picturesque was it both in its fituation and itfelf. The road we were now purfuing was indeed of fuperior beauty, running near the bottom of a high range of hills, whofe feet were washed by the hiring waters of the Loch, and whofe fides were richly clo, thed with birch and other trees, through which large caftle-like masses, or abrupt points of rocks, blanched by time, or forms, and fpotted with differentcoloured moffes, peeped out in a great variety of forms and places; whilft, above them all, the venturous goat was feen bounding from cliff to cliff, in search of his favourite herbs, to the very fummits of the craggs, or hanging on fome narrow projection of the precipice, and gazing, as in mute wonder, at the intrufive paffengers below. Betwixt Loch Oich and Loch Lochy its near neighbour, we obferved foldiers to be pofted in the several miferable hos vels fcattered up and down this diftrict, and, on enquiry, were informed, that their defignation was to guard the pros perty of the inhabitants of the valleys from the depredations of the neighbouring Mountaineers, who, like Cacus of old, The peft, and fcandal of Meunt Aventine, hovering aloft, and watching their op portunity, are accustomed to defcend, and drive away whole herds to regions impervious to frangers, or where they may be fo effectually fecreted amongst the natural defiles and hollows of the country, that all purfuit of them is de fperate, and the baffled owner Nulia videt taciti quærens veftigia furti! (To be continued.) Mr. I Mr. URBAN, Sept. 9. HAVE now before me the Preface to the fecond volume of Lord Clarendon's State Papers, figned Richard Scrope, Magdalen college, June 16, 1773; in which, p. iii. he mentions bis colleague in the publication of the former volume, Was that Dr. Monkhouse and can any of your correspon dents favour you with an account of the Publication, in colle&ing the materials for which, it appears, the prefent worthy and learned Bishop of Salisbury had no inconfiderable part. A QUERIST. DR. Mr. URBAN, Sept. 10. R. WHITBY gives the fame fo. lution of the difficulty, Matt. i, 11, that is offered by your correfpondent T. R. p. 691. Jechonias in this verfe is a different perfon from Jechonias in the 12th, and is indeed fehoja chim, the eldest son and rightful heir of Jofiah. Pharaoh Necho made him king, and changed his name from Eliakim to Jehoiakim: fo that he had three names. That it was this perfon is farther proved from St. Matthew's mention of his brethren, which were Jeboabaz, who ufurped the kingdom from him, and Zedekiah, who fucceed ed him. The fecond Jechonias was fon of the first, as i Chron. iii. 15, 16, 17; and this interpretation makes out the fourteen generations exactly. Other objections to this explanation are done away by that able commentator. It may be added, that many refpectable MSS. read Jakeim and Joacheim. The fameness of perfon is alfo noted by the Fathers, Epiphanius, Auftin, Ambrofe, and Irenæus. See Kufter on the place; and in his Prolegomena, § 702. D. H. Mr. URBAN, Sept. 12. OUR correfpondent B. B, in his Y account of the late learned Mr. Toup, LV. 185, ipeaking of the omiffion of a note on Idyll. XIV. 37, in Warton's edition of Theocritus, being omitted at the inftance of the Vicechancellor of Oxford, who, I believe, that year was Dr. Wetherell, matter of Univerfity college, thinks it not improbable that Mr. T. printed, in his "Appendiculum Notarum ad Theocritum," 2772, "all of that note which was omitted in the fubftituted leaf." had obferved before, that the "fubfiance of the cancelled note was inferted;" which feems molt probable: tor, in the "Cure poferiores, five Appendicula," He "Cœna fedet: gremio jacuit nova nupta mariti Quod perinde est.” He refers to Potter's Grecian Antiqui. ties, 1V. 20, II. p. 377, English edition; tween the two laft inftances. who first pointed out the parallel be"Quod in primis notabit bamo male fedulus & qui nec me nec mea fatis intellexit :---fed parco homini, qui nemini pepercit.” objections, and whom he upbraids at Whether the adverfary who raised thefe the end of the Preface to thefe "Cura pofteriores," as applying himself to nobraicis per omnem vitam fere literis turthing but Hebrew all his life, “in Hepiter volutati," be Dr. Kennicot, or any other, is not determined. H. H Mr. URBAN, TH Sept. 33. HE tollowing prophecy, by the Abbé Delille, laid to have been written in the year 1775, is now handed about in fome of the higher circles. An ingenious friend of mine was called on for a tranflation. I think you will agree with me that he has performed a very difficult task well; and that few more fucceísful attempts at doggrel have ever made their appearance. The original particularly the laft ftanza) is more than commonly quaint and obfcure. Yours, &c. E. E. A. CHANSON de Monf. DELILLE, pendant le Ministère de Monf. DE TURGOT, 1775. Sur l'Air La bonne Avanture." HONNEUR à nos beaux cfprits, Encyclopédiftes; Du bonheur François épris, Grands économistes! Par leurs foins, au tems d'Adam, Ce n'est plus de nos bouquins Les Les Colbert & les Sully Nous paroiflent grands-mais, fy! C'étoit l'ignorance! On verra tous les états Entr'eux fe confondre: Les pauvres, fur leurs grabats, Des biens on fera des lots, Nobleife & roture; Aux droits de la nature. Les François auront des dieux Alors, adieu, fureté Entre faurs & freres, Sacremcus & parentes Seront des chimeres : Chaque pere imitera Matines & nones, Nous verrons ces bienheureux Prifant des novations La ficre fequelle, La France des nations Sera le modele: Et cet honneur nous devronş A qui nous devrons le plus, Ne voudra plus l'être. Oh gue, J'enverrois tout paitre! Soon fhall be restor❜d to man Golden days-((o runs their plan) — As when firft the world began Then let ut laugh and dance, Sir ! Not from mufty volumes now, Sir, Sully once, in days far hence,- Shall together lie, Sir. Lords and tinkers vis-à-vis, Sir, Laws and juftice, then, adieu! Frenchmen, good and virtuous grown, Sir, Shall have, each, a god of 's own, Sir, That's fomewhat like a tanfy! Lazy monks no more shall dwell, Sir, Dance with merry step, Sirs! Men admiring this fam'd junto, |