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MS has not survived. Previously published: Monthly Magazine, 6 (September 1798), 183–184 [from where the text is taken] under the pseudonym ‘S.’. New attribution to Southey.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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In answer to the enquiry of your
correspondent in your last Month’s Magazine, respecting the
situation of Mohoz.
“Mohacz, Mohatz, a town in the lower Hungary,
upon the Danube, between the river Sarwiza to the north, and
the Drave to the south; four German miles from either, six
from Esseck to the north, and nine from Colocza to the
south. This otherwise small place is memorable for two great
battles here fought; the first between Lewis king of
Hungary,Curass, fell into a quagmire, and was swallowed
up: after which Solyman took and slew two hundred thousand
Hungarians, and got such a footing in this kingdom, that he
could never be expelled. This fatal battle was fought
October 29. The second in some part retrieves the loss and
infamy of the former. The Duke of Loraine
I have been thus minute in copying the above particulars attached to the description of this place, as they record two curious historical facts (one of which is alluded to by your correspondent) which may prove interesting to some of your readers.
Saltzbach, where the celebrated Marshal
Turenneultzbach — a small town in
Nortgow (a province of Germany) in the upper palatinate of
the Rhine, one mile distant from Amberg to the south-east,
which gives the title of a prince to some branches of the
palatine family.” The “
In our literary desiderata, a true orthography seems particularly wanted in maps and geographical books, where the names are often so egregiously mis-spelt, as to make it difficult to recognize them as the places meant; and this error, especially in maps, I suspect to be principally owing to surveyors adopting the provincial pronunciation, which, in many instances, is quite foreign to the spelling.
There is too, a shameful neglect in the compilers of our modern gazetteers, which is that of copying the descriptions of places from former publications, without giving themselves the trouble to enquire what alterations may have taken place in the course of time, what improvements may have been made in public buildings, trade, or manufactures, &c. or their decline; by which means error becomes perpetuated from one generation to another. Some curious specimens of which might be selected, that would prove these otherwise useful publications to be, in general, mere catchpennies and the sources of much misinformation. I am, your’s,
Norwich, August 9, 1798.