forfeit our title to rationality by fuppofing him infallible. It is not criminal that the Notitia Monaflica hould have placed a religious houfe at Layes, in Staffordshire, and another a Barrow, in Cheshire-ner is it criminal to fup. pofe they are misplaced.

If fictitious fcenery, or falfe reprefentation, be indisputable proofs of writing for profit, the patriotic fpirit of the la learned editor of Camder's Britana may perhaps be doubted by those who read his account of Dam (a Stafford fire town), in the Additions to Derbyshire, and who, knowing the place intended to be defcribed, will not find his defcription of it faithful in any of its features

"Physician, heal thyfelf."

It probably would not be difpleafing to your readers, to be informed in what part of Chefire Mr. Gough found the preceptorv at Barrow. See his edition of Camden, vol II. p. 439*. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

T

THO BLORE.

March 12. HE following letter was addreffed to the Printer of the Morning Chronicle. Your preferving it in more permanent form will fhew your impartiality, and oblige

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MANY CONSTANT READERS.

Clapton, March 7.

SIR, "Taking it for granted, that your acCount of Mr. Burke's fpeech, in the debate on Mr. Sheridan's late motion, may be depended upon, I beg leave, through the channel of your paper, to afk him, what autho rity he had for afferting, as he did, that [ gave my name to the fentiments in the correfpondence of the Revolution Society, in England, with the Jacobin Societies in France; fentiments adveríe to our Conftination? That correfpondence I have feen, but have not yet read. I am not, nor ever was, a member of any political fociety whatever; nor did I ever fign any paper originating with them. This I do not fay because I have any objection to fuch focieties, but my ftudies and purfuits have been of a different kind.

"I also wish to ask Mr. Burke what authority he has for afferting that I was made a citizen of France because I had declared hoftility to the Conflitution of England? This affertion, like the preceding, is nothing elfe than a malignant calumny; being an untruth, which, in the prefent fate of things, is calculated to do me the greatest injury. I was made a citizen of France at the fame time with Mr. Wilberforce, and feveral others; and I had no more previous knowledge of the measure than he had;

and will Mr. Burke fay, that Mr. Wilberforce was made a citizen of France' because be had declared hoftility to the Conftitution of this country?'

"Though few of my publications relate to politicks, I have more than once exprelled myself in favour of our Conftitution; and I call upon Mr. Burke to fhew that I have ever written any thing that can, by any fair conftruction, he fa to be against it. I conceive myself to be a much better friend to the true principles of it than he now is. Ven M.. Burke and I were acquainted, an we uted to converfe on the subject of politicks (for, we had hardly any other common topick), our fentiments respecting the Conftitution, and the principles of Liberty in general, were, as I then conceived, the fame. Had I been in his prefent fituation with refpect to the favours of Government, my opi-, nions might have changed as his have done; but, continuing in the fame fituation in that refpect, my views of things have continued the fame.

"I would obferve on this occafion, that I do not fee the wiffem of making perions enemies of the Conftitution, whether they

will or not. If the time thould come that this Conditition fhall want the aid of all its friends, those who are now the most forward to declare their attachment to it may not he the most to be depended upon. If we learn any thing from history or obfervation, it is, that boafting and infolence are generally followed by cowardice, and that patient fuffering is the mark of the trueft courage.

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"Mr. Burke's fneering at me for having been fufficiently rewarded for my great fervices in philofophy, politicks, and religion,' is a mean infult in one basking in the fanfame of power on one who is under its frowns.

What does Mr. Burke know of my fervices in philofophy or religion, when the probability is, that he is utterly unacquainted with any thing that I have written on thefe fubjects? When have I made any boast of my fervices, whatever they be, or intim. ted any expectation of a reward? though every man, who gives his t me to any important fubject, deferves the thanks of his countrymen, whatever may have been his fuccefs. However, far from expecting any reward, I thall think my felf very happy if I efcape without farther punishment. But that partyfpirit, which is fo much inflamed by the wri tings and speeches of Mr. Burke, gives me but little encouragement to expect fo much.

"Submitting thefe confiderations to the cooler thoughts (if he have any fach) of Mr. Burke, and of your numerous readers, a mong fome of whom I hope to meet with candour, I remain, &c. J. PRIESTLEY.”

***The sketch of Old Sandwich, engraved in pl. II. fig. 1, is fent us by a refpe&table correfpondent; who expreffes fome doubts as to its originality; but thinks it of fufficient curiofity to entitle it to publication.

Mr.

arrow.

αἴθων, σιδήρω. Ib. 485. Do not imagine that the epithet aty, though derived from aw uro, has any reference to the yellow colour of fire; it merely and fimply relates to its brightness. If it is expreffive of any colour, it is of the ferruginous kind. We have transferred the word aitwy exactly into our language, where burnished fignifies precifely the fame thing. Eidngos in this paflage means the axe.

ἐπεὶ ἔ σφι λίθος χρώς, ἐδὲ σίδηρος, Χαλκὸν ἀνάσχεσθαι ταμεσίχροα. 1b. 510. I fhall only obferve, that cingos is here put in oppofition to χαλκός, with an implied pre-eminence.

Χάλκεα, ἐπλάκνημα, σιδηρίῳ ἄξονι ἀμφίς. II.

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Nothing conclufive to be gathered from this; but I think Achilles would fcarcely cut his throat with a knife made of brass. αἴθωνι σιδήρω.

Il. 20. 372, v. fuprà Il. 4. 485. η γάρ σοί γε σιδήρεος ἔνδοθι θυμός. 11. 22. 357.

I cannot help being of opinion, that the word inpros is not used at random here; it means the hardest of all poffi→ bie metals, as applied to the obdurate heart of Achilles.

ὀρέχθεον ἀμφὶ σιδήρω. Π. 23. 30. The inftrument of facrifice, probably of iron.-N B. I do not mean to exclude the application of the word inges to feel, or wrought iron of any kind.

πυρὸς μόνος ἧκε σιδήριον. Ib. 177. This is an uncommon ufage of the word. It probably is applied to the operations of fire from its great and almoft irrefiftible ftrength, and is, f think, not taken from the general property of metals, but directly irom that of iron.

ἐν μὲν γάρ οἱ ἀτιμούμενός γε σιδήρω. Ib. 834.

Here I am clear that the mafs thrown

down by Achilles, as the prize for those who could throw it fartheft, was of unwrought iron. It was to be turned into ploughfhares and inftruments of hufbandry.

σιδήρειον νύ τοι ἦτορα

II. 24. 205, 521, V. fuprà Il. 22. 357.

These are the principal paffages in which it occurs in the Ilad It is remarkable, that no mention of it is made in the defcription of the armour of Achilles in the 18th book.

Ες Τεμέσην μετὰ χαλκόν. ἄγω δ' αἴθωνα
σίδηρον.
Cd. 1. 184.
Mentor goes to Temese for brafs, and

- takes a quantity of iron.