IS 16.] Unca-iohity of the Law. — Contention of Paris. 15 . 



•OTinexion with the high rent paid by it, and bring the matter lack to eommom 

 working people, and the present price of seitse, and the clearest principles of 

 provisions, I think it must be obvions to justice. 



every humane mind, that the labourer However, in a subsequent case, the 

 ■whoseweeklyearningsdoiiotexceedtbir- court, consisting of Judges Mansfield, 



ty shillit^, and who has a family to main- 

 tain, ought not to be cliargcd with any 

 poor-rate ; and, as many of your readers 

 have it in their power to alleviate, if not 

 Ttmovc, this burthen, I sliould hoi>e 

 tliese hints will not be thrown away, 

 particularly when so m&ny mechanics 

 and labourers aie unemployed ; and the 

 forcuig theai to pay poor-rates is forcing 

 iiiiem to become paupers, and, by so do- 

 ing, breaking down that spirit of inde- 

 pendence, and destroying tliose feelings, 

 wliich are the best ornament of man, 

 and tite surest pledge of his discharging 

 the duties he owes to himself, to his 

 family, and to society. C. G. 



To the Editor of the Monthlif Magazine. 



SIR, 



"OU will obhge me by inserting the 

 tbHowiug in the next number of 

 your Magazine, in order that it may 

 meet tlie eye of some one whose gram- 

 Biatical perfection may enable him to 

 fcivour me with a clear and decided opi- 

 nion thereon, which wiU be thankfully 

 received through the same mcdiiuu. 

 TAe glwious Uncertainty of the Law 

 exenqilijied. 



K. B. Denn versus Feamside (Powel 

 on Powers). — By a certain indenture of 

 lease, W. demised. Sec. Hnbrndtim 

 from the day of the date thereof (mean- 

 ing from tlie day of the date of the in- 

 denture) — ^Judges Willis, Bird), Ab- 

 ney, and Burrell, resolved unanimously, 

 that the lease was of a freehold, to com- 

 mence infidure, (not on the day of the 

 date). Lord Chief Justice* Pratt was of 

 the same opinion. These opinions esta- 

 blished (in effect), that y'row the day, &.c. 

 did not include the day of the date, con- 

 sequently tlie lease commenced the day 

 after. 



In case. Freeman c. West, 2 Wils. 

 163 — Lord Chief Justice Pratt, how- 

 ever his opinion might liave varied, ob- 

 served, We must iwt overthrow established 

 principles of law. 



'I'liis ride of construction was afler- 

 vaids confirmed by Judges Mansfield, 

 Parker, Reynolds, and A thurst, in two 

 or three individual cases ; but, in one of 

 which, Lord Mansfield rested, it seems, 

 rather upon authorities than conviction 

 of mind, by s;iying, that, if counsel 

 thought they could fitul coidraricty ofau- 

 th»nliet, ht i/toulabe a7«rf t» lay hold of 



Parker, Reynolds, and Athurst, were of 

 a contrary opinion, the ground of whicii 

 opinion was, tliat the v/oid from means 

 eitlicr inclusive or exclusive. 



It is admitted that, according to strict 

 rules of grammar, it must depend upou 

 the context, or subject matter, whether 

 the word " from" shall be inclusive Mt 

 exclusive ; but, in the instance before its, 

 wliut is the strict gratjunatical definition f 

 F. tL 



To tlie Editor of the MonilJy MagazinA, 



SIR, 



"WTEiVR the bottom of Welbeck- 

 JL^ street, on the east side, there is a 

 building which attracts the notice of 

 passers-by from its singular appearance; 

 it is the side of a ho«ise, covered witk 

 Egyptian liieroglyphics, and containing 

 a gate, over which is written the wool 

 AiATAAAinopoY. As tlic word stands, 

 I cainiot, by any Greek constniction or 

 dialect, explain it ; I therefore request 

 some of your intelligent readers to giv« 

 the requisite information. In Bond- 

 street the word iraf^vm ajjpears on a 

 buildmg; and in Oxford-street, at a 

 dairy, the following quotation, as a sign, 

 appears — Lac tnihi nmi crstate, novian 

 nan frigore deest. While, in Soho- 

 square, the foolish word, Therapolcgia, 

 in English characters, apj)ears upon aa 

 office for servants. 



It is to be regretted that the silly va- 

 nity of some of the inhabitants of Lon- 

 don should have induced them to use 

 terms which convey no instruction to 

 the learned,- and which arc inexplicabla 

 by the ignorant : indeed, if the mania 

 for introducing such terms encrease, it 

 may he regarded as the first sign of the 

 decline of classical knowledge. 



Qtiere. — Is the word Bazar to have 

 two a's or one ? and what is its doii- 

 vation ? Indoctus 



June 14, 1816. 



To the Editor of the Mmiihhj Magazine. 



.SIR, 



IN reply to Cato, page 401, of your 

 last number, upon arti( le 12, in the 

 Convention of Paris, it appears to me 

 that he views it quite in a wrong light: 

 to quote an article fairly, it ought to ba 

 printed in the same type throughout, 

 and not, by giving three different'iypes| 

 cou>cy the moaning of the M'riter instead 



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