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A new thermometer has been invented for registering the highest and lowest temperatures in the abfence of the obferver, which is faid to be a more fimple, as well as a lefs expenfive, inftrument than Six's thermometer. It confifts in two thermometers, one mercurial, and the other of alkohols, having three

ftems horizontal. The former has for

its index a fmall piece of magnetical steel wire, and the latter a minute thread of glafs, having its two ends formed into Imall knobs by fufion in the flame of a candle. The magnetical bit of wire lies in the vacant space of the mercurial thermometer, and is pushed forward by the mercury whenever the temperature rifes and pushes that fluid against it; but when the temperature falls, and the fluid retires, this index is left behind, and fhews the maximum. The other index, or bit of glafs, lies in the tube of the spiritthermometer, immerfed in the alkohol, and when the spirit retires by the depreffron of temperature, the index is carried along with it in apparent contact with its interiour furface; but on increase of temperature the spirit goes forward and leaves the index behind, which therefore fhews the minimum of temperature fince it was fet. The fteel index is eafily brought to the mercury by applying a magnet on the outfide of the tube, and the other is properly placed at the end of the column alkohol by inclining the whole inftrument.

removed from his native land, culate upon equal advantages; for, be fides every thing neceffary for his information that can be found in London periodical publications, he will be gratified with ERRATUM. In page 291, first column, 6 a minute defeription of a country, rapid-line from bottom for paffions read paffion.

EDITORS' NOTES. OUR present number is enriched with a production from the pen of the Hon. J. Q. Adams. By making use of the Anthology for enchasing the jewel, he has conferred an honour, of which we are not insensible, and a compliment of which we are proud. If the Professor of Rhetorick, in his new rambles through poetry and prose, should note any thing of "pleasant aspect" for the general view, we should be happy in displaying it for publick applause. We wish him complete success in his present literary exertions; and though, for each course of his lectures, he will not receive the splendid Didactron of Isocrates, a thousand mine, yet we trust, that his discourses will be such, as Quintilian might praise, and that the consequent renown will fully compensate the scanty pecuniary emolument of the new professorship.

Many subscribers to the American edition of Rees's Cyclopædia have expressed in strong terms their disapprobation of the mutilated state in which several articles are exhibited. We shall not give, at present, any opinion respecting the extent of these mutilations; though, from the respectability of the complainants, we are afraid they are important. Should this appear to be the case, we have no hesitation in asserting, that such conduct is altogether unjustifiable. Let the American editors add what they think useful or important, provided they be careful to distinguish what they insert, from that which rests upon the authority of the learned and laborious Dr. Rees; but let us have no garblings, no mutilations, no index expurgatorius. The work in question is of the most respectable Upwards of forty of the first literary men in Great Britain

and Ireland are engaged to furnish the various articles; and the whole is under the superintendence of an editor, who has already proved himself fully equal to the task. That any men should venture to alter such a work would argue no little hardihood, and he would more probably incur the suspicion of overweening confidence, than inspire a belief in his capacity to improve the publication. But that this should be done by anonymous criticks, of whose character for judgment and for judgment and talents the world knows nothing, is an impertinence, for which we cannot find a name. It transfers the weighty responsibility of the work from those, who are able to sustain it, to the shoulders of a Mr. Nobody, whom we have neither seen nor heard. We hesitate not to say, that the whole of the Cyclopædia, as edited by Dr. Rees, ought to be given to the subscribers. The American publishers have an undoubted right to add, to explain, to correct an error, or insert a caution, within the limitation we have mentioned; but this right does not extend to mutilation or omission, which has a tendency to confound all literary authority, and to render the ground we tread upon uncertain and unsure. We desire to be understood, not as giving a decided opinion how far this has been done in the work referred to; but are the more earnest in our expressions, because the practice has been shamefully prevalent in American re-publications; so much so that no literary man is safe in depending upon many of them, as giving the ungarbled and unsophisticated sense of the original author. With respect to the work in question, we hope to give it, in a future number, a thorough examination, and to administer strict justice between the editors and the publick.

THE

MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY.

JULY, 1806.

ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM EUROPE.

Government...Laws...Lawyers.

THE kingdom of the two Sicilies, Naples, became an independent state after the dissolution of the Roman empire, of which it was a fragment, and has been from its origin the perpetual seat of discord and civil wars; subjugated by one nation after another, the fertility of its climate, and the labour of its inhabitants, have been insufficient to gratify the rapacity of the conquerors. Yet so lavish is nature of her bounty to this country, that notwithstanding the tremendous effects of earthquakes and volcanoes, and the devastations of continual wars, an interval of a few years of peace always restored its former prosperity. But the immediate rapine and violence of these turbulent times, terrible as they were, have not been so pernicious, as the civil and political consequences that resulted from the irruptions and transient dominion of so many different nations. The former only afflicted a single generation, but the latter have been entailed upon posterity. This beautiful, but unfortunate country, was successively ravaged by the Normans, the Germans, the Spaniards, and involved in perpetual quarrels with the intriguing ambition of the papal power, when the thunder of the Vatican affrightVol. III. No. 7. 2T

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ed the greater part of Europe, in those ages debased by every species of tyranny and superstition. Every invader brought the laws of his own country; the Neapolitans, besides retaining the Roman jurisprudence of the Justinian code, adopted the Norman code, and, that the confusion might be worse confounded, joined to these, with the system of feudal rights and tenures, Spanish customs and authorities, incorporating occasionally with the rest, a papal ordination.

This complicated system, or rather this confused medley of laws, many of which, though they were originally good, yet were so successfully veiled in tedious form, as to obscure their meaning and destroy their utility,now forms the unwieldy, intricate system of jurisprudence in this kingdom. It will be easy to imagine the state of confusion and uncertainty, in which such a system must place all sorts of claims or agreements, subject to legal discussion; that the most equitable tenure of property must be insecure, where such a wide field is left open for chicanery and legal vexation and delay. Indeed the single fact, that there are twenty thousand lawyers in Naples, will give the best idea of

it; and it may be readily conceived, that from the body of laws just mentioned, (I have been told, they sometimes come to court with a cartload of volumes to cite authorities and precedents) it is easy for them to protract any decision, till the subject of dispute has cost more than its intrinsick value. A fertile soil, a genial sky, and the exertions of industry, would, in a few years after the ravages of war, again give to the grain its customary protection in this country against the fervid heat of the sun, the luxuriant shade of the vine, festooning from the olive, and other fruit trecs, planted at regular distances;...yet these charming fields must be esteemed uncertain wealth, when they are held on such a precarious

tenure.

It is a singular fact, that the present sovereign is the first king who was ever born in the country. A patriot king may be an imaginary being. Surely he cannot be looked for here, where he has not even the slight attachment of birth. Continually subjugated by foreign nations, they have had a succession of monarchs, strangers to the country they governed, and more solicitous about their personal splendour and power, than the happiness of the people, over whom they tyrannized. This, with the wretched state of their laws, sufficiently explains, why this. fine country has always been the prey of others, and why the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which from the fertility of its soil, the genial influence of its climate, and its geographical situation, ought to have been powerful and respectable, has been too weak to resist any rapacious invader, and too contemptible to excite the pity or protection of any respectable pow

er.

The fertile island of Sicily, once the granary of the Roman empire, hardly gives more consequence to its sovereign, than his kingdom of Jerusalem. Yet from its immense resources, if inhabited by an industrious people, whose earnings should be protected by the laws, this island ought to make its owner a respectable, powerful sovereign. In its present state, it is half a desert, and half a convent. Nor do the continental possessions afford much greater resources; the provinces of the two Calabrias pay no revenues to the crown, and their principal contribution is a yearly convoy of a hundred ruffians to the galleys at Naples.

The Museum at Portici is one monument in favour of the gov ernment : no recent researches have been made, though doubtless much remains to be discovered. We would pardon, however, this government for letting the skele tons of the inhabitants of Pompeia repose in the houses, where they have been buried for eighteen centuries. This is only disappointing the curiosity of the artist and antiquarian. But when a stranger witnesses the degraded state of their country, and the indifference with which they suffer its great natural resources to lie dormant, he cannot help execrating their apathy.

The king of Naples, like his cousin, the king of Spain, is extravagantly fond of hunting; it seems to be a passion of the Spanish line. Yet while the king is hunting boars in the wilds of Caserta, his ministers are hunting his subjects in every part of the kingdom. Had the Neapolitan court been less occupied with the pleasures of the chace, or other pleasures less ferocious, and, econ

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