, 128 Serjeant RnnningioiVs Evi 



Putting out of question the cases of 

 fraud, is tlierc any tiisciimiiiatioii Ije- 

 tv.eeii a person wlio coiitiaets deijts 

 knowing lie is unable to pay them, and 

 a person wlio contracts thein having a 

 Lope tliat he shall pay them, but who af- 

 terwards is prevented by misfortune? — • 

 Kone that I know of. 



Do you think that, in sound policy, and 

 according to good morals, such a dis- 

 crioiinatioii might be usefully adopted? 

 —I should d^)ubt it a good deal, but 

 that is only the opinion of an individual. 



Have you aa opportunity of knowing, 

 from tlie cases which have come before 

 you, whether credit has been obtained 

 by a false appearance of opulence in the 

 debtor, or by false rejiresentations? — As 

 1o the former, I have no recollection of 

 any; but, as to the latter, many have been 

 remanded for misrepresentations. 



Perhaps thecase of false appearance in 

 life did not come before yon, on accoimt 

 of th.it not being a ground of objection 

 ■witliin ihe meaning of the act? — That 

 jropably may be the case. As to mere 

 false appearances, much blame, uiuler 

 such circumstances, ni.^iy be imputed to 

 Ibc creditor us well as <o the debtor. 



What degree of blame, in such cases, 

 do you suppose to be attributable to 

 the creditor? — Not using due caution 

 and making strict enquiry as to whom 

 be trusts. I take it to have been the 

 object 6f this act, to prevent that impru- 

 dence in creditors. 



*^* These were the chief points of pub- 

 lic interest in this great volume of evidence. 

 The rest conMsts oi invectives against the 

 new law, or against particular debtors who 

 tad defrauded the witnesses. 



To the Ed'Uur of the Monthly Magazine. 

 SIR, 



I HAVE lafcly procured a new pub- 

 lication, which is printed for the 

 author, the Rev. John Booth, by Ed- 

 ward IJaiucs, Leeds; entitled, A Lex- 

 icon of the Primitive Words of the 

 Greek Language, inclusive of several 

 loading derivatives, upon a new plan. 



In tlie above w\)i k, which is an octavo 

 Tolume of 308 pages, the words are put 

 upon a grammatical plan, and cla.ssitied 

 according to the analogy tl^ey bear one 

 lo another. They are individually ac- 

 companied by a Latin and English 

 interpretation,'wli!le, in their respective 

 classes, a strict alphabetical order is 

 observed. 



In speaking of the first declension of 

 Eonns, the author states, th.at its sub- 

 stantives terminate in « and % of the 

 ftmiuiae gender, and in «s and uj of the 



dencr. — Booth's Lexicon. [Sept. 1, 



masculine. He divides the words of 

 tliis declension into two classes ; sayitig, 

 that the nouirs of (-lass the first end in 

 a., r„ and »; ; and then, after a paradigm 

 for declining, he gives all the primitive 

 words of those terminations. 



This first class ends, and the second 

 commences, at page 30. Permit me, 

 Sir, to give the author's preliminary re- 

 marks in his own words. 



" Class the second, consisting of 

 nouns ending in a pure, and in ^a of the 

 feminine gender, and in a; of the mas- 

 culine. 



N.B. " All declinable words ending in 

 a pnre, or in pa, be they nouns, adjectives, 

 pronouns, or participles, make their ge- 

 nitive singular in «;, and their dative in •. 

 So, also, do proper names in Ja and Sta ; a» 

 AWtt, Leda : Mij&*, IMarlba. But, ob- 

 serve, appellative nouns endicg in J* 

 and &a, make their genitive in »?, and their 

 dative in p ; as, aKa-.Sa, spina, G. axov&nf, 

 D. ttxav&j. So, also, iUi'vSa, Mentha j 

 va<f^a. Naphtha; s-naTri^Ja, ludi genus ; 

 each of wliich belongs to the preccdhig 

 class." ' 



Upon reading these remarks, that 

 maxim, which is contained in all th© ' 

 Greek grammars that I have seen, na- 

 turally recurred to my recollection; 

 viz. " Finita in ^a, 9a, ^a, et * purum, 

 faciunt gcnitivuni in a?, ct dativum 

 in «." I, therefore, consulted Scapula, 

 Schrevelius, Ilederic, and other lexico- 

 graphers; and found, that they nnani- 

 niously confirmed these observations. 



It seems somewhat odd, though, I 

 confess, 1 was not aware of it previous 

 to my seeing the above jjiiblicalioDj 

 that all Greek grammars should, with- 

 out any qualification, aflirm, that nouns 

 ending in act, Sa, ^a, and a pnre, make 

 their genitive in a;, and their dative in a, 

 wlien the Lexicons teach us to decline 

 common nouns, ending in ^a and 

 after the following manner: — 



J ^xavSra, ^ 

 V. crxawsgja, J 



I .should be glad to know the sentj- 

 mcuts of some of your correspondents. 

 Philogeaai. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



.4 S the insertion of projects for pubi 

 ±\. lie benefit, in your vs^luable Maga- 

 zine, has been in many instances pro- 

 ductive of good, allow me to suggest 

 one towards the relief of the poor: — it 

 is to ap|dy the surplus money left to sup- 

 port alms-honscs, towatds wlut mJgl4 



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