the marauding ancients have caught a parcel of Tartars in the moderns, who have not failed to plunder them in their turn. Montaigne informs Montaigne informs us, that he practifed a curious method of plagiarifm, in which he has been copied with great fuccefs. He tells us, that he used to infert whole fentences from the ancients without acknowledgment, that the critics might give nasardes to Seneca and Plutarch, while they imagined that they tweaked his nofe. Thus the moft original ideas in the Emilius of Rouffeau, and the most useful part of that performance are borrowed from the Tractate on Education, falfely attributed to Plutarch (if we may truft Wyttenbach,) as Williams has shown at great length in his Lectures on Education. I was led to thefe reflections by meeting with a fingular paffage in the New London Review for January 1799. The paffage occurs in the Review of Mr Horne Tooke's diverfions of Purley, and runs thus: "The article Grammar in the Encyclopædia Britannica contains many original and profound views on the fubject of language, deriv. "ed from the prelections of the "learned Dr Hunter, Profeffor of Humanity in the Univerfity of St "Andrews; but the mode of their "publication merits the fevereft reprehenfion. The Profeffor has, "from a date anterior even to the publication of Mr Horne Tooke's letter to Mr Dunning, been in the "habit of giving public lectures on "grammar, The principles which "he has long been accuftomed to maintain, differ, in fome refpe&ts, "from those of Mr Tooke, while in many others they coincide. Now "the article "Grammar," is known fufficiently fecure from detection, modeftly infinuates, that "difco"veries in grammar are not, indeed, "to be looked for, because, forfooth, "the fubject is fo intimately con "nected with metaphyfics!!!" As I knew that the conductor of the last fix volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica was Dr Gleig, an Epifcopal clergyman, of no mean li terary reputation, aud of an excellent moral character, I could not help being fhocked at fuch an infamous charge as that contained in the paragraph cited, and believed it to be one of the infinuations equally malicious as groundless, that are too often admitted into the literary journals of the day. Upon confulting the article Grammar in the Encyclopædia Britannica, l'actually found the vague reference to the Tranfactions of the Edinburgh Society, inftead of the particularization of Dr Hunter's E fay on the particles A and ad. The article, too, feemed to contain vari. ous difcrepancies, as if the author. had not understood his own principles, and to refemble more the lec to confift almost entirely of mere "tranfcripts of grammatical exer"cifes in the humanity clafs, upon "the fubject of the Profeffor's lectures of a profeffor of humanity, than tures. Thefe exercifes were not fuch an effay as a man of philofophi cal 1 cal difcrimination and fcience would have composed for the Encyclopædia Britannica. Upon confulting the preface to the Encyclopædia Britannica, I discovered an error in the tatement of the reviewer; for it is not Dr Gleig the editor, but a Mr Bruce, whom I have fince discovered to be an Epifcopal clergyman at Dundee, who makes the acknowledgment to Dr Hunter of St Andrews; but then, in other refpects, the ftatement of facts feems to be correct, and of the intention it is im poffible for me to judge. Can we fuppofe, however, that Mr Bruce would have made fuch an apology to Dr Hunter, if he had been guilty of the proceeding with which he is charged by the reviewer? Again, can we fuppofe that Dr Hunter would bave remained filent, if he had been treated according to the reviewer's ftatement? Dr Hunter's fame as a grammarian is defervedly great, but can we believe he would have been fo little folicitous about his literary reputation, as to fuffer himself to be quietly fwindled out of the fruit of his laborious hours of study? Befides, the reviewer ftates the fact as one that is well known, whereas I had never before heard fuch an infinuation. I therefore request an clucidation of this fubject from any of your correfpondents or readers that may happen to be acquainted with. the real ftate of the fact; and I do this with the greater expectation, as, from the circulation of your Maga. zine, it may be expected to reach either Dr Hunter, or Dr Gleig, or Mr Bruce, or fome of their friends. Edin. July 8th, 1799. PHILALETHES. DESCRIPTION OF THE VIEW. HOPETOUN Houfe, the feat of the Right Honourable the Earl of Hopetoun, is fituate on the fouthern bank of the Forth, at the distance of about twelve miles north-weft from Edinburgh, and within three miles of the burgh of Queensferry. It is a stately and magnificent manfion; fronting the fouth; and accommodated with ftables and other office houfes, uncommonly fumptuous and fuperb. The bank upon which it ftands, tifing holdly over the Frith below, fpreads into an extenfive terrace; the furface of which is very gently varied by fome low and unequal fwells. Beyond this terraced bank, the level of the ground partially fubfides, and then riles with a confiderable, but not difagreeably abrupt declivity, fo as to protect and shelter the whole fcene below. In the decoration of this fcene, much labour and expence have been apparently lavished, with taste and kill uncommonly happy. A beau tiful lawn expands immediately around the houfe. A fpacious kitchen-garden fills the fubfiding bottom. On the skirts of the lawn, wood is beautifully difpofed; prefenting, firft, picturefque fingle trees; then thickening gradually into one furrounding mafs of verdant fhade; which, however, opens here and there, at proper points of view, to unveil to the eye distant profpects, which invite and charm it, with all the power of the fairest landscapes, felected and embellished by the genius of defign, and the most exquifite touches of the hand of painting. Path-ways are romantically conducted through the encircling woods; and ruftic feats are difperfed here and there, under the trees; fuggefting to imagination, the bewitching, rural fimplicity; the love, the innocence, the uncloying joys, which have been attributed to the Arcadian scenery of the paftoral poets. A ftately wall encompaffes and bounds the whole fcene. It is acceffible by a spacious a fpacious road afcending from the interior fhore of the Frith, and by another paffage on the western side. But, the advantages of profpect which Hopetoun Houfe and its circumjacent ornamented grounds enjoy, are fuch as to exceed every beauty that they have acquired from interior decoration. Towards the north west extremity, on the very verge of the Frith, there is a point of view, from which the eye com mands the whole turnings and windings of the Forth, with the expanfe of the Frith, from Stirling, to the le of May and North Berwick Law. The majeftic courfe of the river, the widening Frith, the expanfion of the bay, the lets fcattered amid the waters, the veffels of every form, gliding to and fro upon the furface, the towns and harbours appearing a round the coaft, the wide tract extending northward beyond the ftream, and bounded only by Ben Lomond, and by the Ochill and Grampian Hills; prefent all together, a fcene ; of land and water; of the beauties and wonders of Nature, and the works of Art; fuch a wide range of ftill fcenery, and that fo much animated by the majestic courfe of the stream, and by the bustle of men and other animals; fuch an endless diversity, and fuch unceasing viciffitudes of all the effects of light and fhade; fo many objects, interefting naturally, and by themfelves, and fuch a multitude of others fitted to engage the mind by every charm of affociation fuch a combination of the fublime, the beautiful, and the picturesque; that it is probably unequalled in Britain; and is moft certainly without a parallel in Scotland. It aftonishes the mind, at a firft profpect; and fixes it in a fort of awful admiration and delight, amid which all thofe mingled emotions are called up, which beauty or fublimity is capable to excite. Many other enchanting profpects are to be enjoyed from other points of view within these grounds. This View is taken from the east. CHARACTER OF THE LATE LORD SANDWICH. ORD Sandwich was in every re- of his benevolence in the extent which lation of life truly amiable. He he wifhed. He was, however, as it was a good and affectionate father, a were, inftinctively difpofed to rekind mafter to his fervants, molt of lieve the miferies of life, in whatwhom were known to live in his fervice ever shape they prefented themmany years; and fome at this day re- felves to his notice. But his benemain in the family, maintained under volence was not confined to perfons of the protection of the prefent Earl. this defcription only; it extended to They who were in the habit of living others, who, on the various contefts with him had every day occafion to in which he was engaged, oppofed obferve and admire the fweetnefs of him with much vehemence in the purhis temper, which fhewed itself in con- fuit of objects which he had moft at tinual acts of kindness and benevolent heart. So placable was his difpofiattention to all around him. His Lord- tion, that when the conteft was ofhip's heart was ever open to the exi- ver, he rendered to many of them efgences of the diftreffed, and at all fential fervices; fo open to recontimes moft ready and willing to admi. ciliation, that on the flighteft overnifter relief; which he was the more tures he forgave even those who, afenabled to do by his influence and inter having received from him the hightere, when in power, than in his individual capacity; his patrimonial eftate, particularly in his early days, being too narrow to allow the exertion eft obligations, were moft forward to affift bis enemies in the virulent attacks fo repeatedly made on him while in office. ON |