THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 148.] 



OCTOBER 1, 1806. [3 of Vol. 22. 



ORIOmAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magcmine. 



SIR, 



IN your Magazine for the year 1800 a 

 ftateiiient was given oi'tlie annual v;i- 

 lue of the principal manufa6tiues of tliis 

 country. From accounts which have 

 been lince made public, more acciwate 

 information is obtained rd'pectjng fome 

 of the branches ; and the following elii- 

 •mate will Ihew more correctly their pre- 

 fcnt extent and importance. 



Anmud Valve. Per/, emp. 

 .-Woollen, - - 16,400,000 4"40,:i40 

 "Leather, - - 10,500,000 a41,«18 

 Cotton, - - 11,000,000 347,-271 

 Silk, - - - 2,700,000 05,000 



Liiien and Flax, 3,000,000 95,000 



Hemp, - - - 1,COO,000 35,000 



Paper, - - - 900,000 30,000 



Glnfs, - . - 1,500,000 3(3,000 



Potteries, - - 2,000,000 45,000 



Iron,Tin,&Lead, 10,000,000 -200,000 

 Copper ik Brafs, 3,G00,ti00 d0,000 



Steel, Plating, &c., 4,000,000 70,000 



^.67,200,000 1,665,429 



Tlie annual value of other manufac- 

 tures of lefs importance may probably be 

 ellimnted at about four or five millions, 

 and the number of perfous <:mployed in 

 them at about 100,000. 



Auguji 28, 1806. J. J. G. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



WILL you permit me to occupy an- 

 other page in a review of the ob- 

 fervations and fugiieflions that have fal- 

 len from the prolitic minds .of two of 

 your Correfpondents, relative to my pro- 

 pofa'.s and plan of publifliing a Diction- 

 ary of the Englifli Lantruage ? 



To aH monofyllables tcrminatins; with 

 c or k, Mr. Smart jultly retains both let- 

 ters; but in words contiftini; of a plura- 

 lity of fyllables, with the lail uneinfihati- 

 cal, one only is retained. On this prin- 

 ciple we mull write Jhipurcc, dccoi/iluc, 

 druubac, lovi/ic, and gamecoc ; but finely, 

 when words are thus compounded, as 

 ihcy take their exprelTive and determi- 

 nate meaning from the latter fj liable, 



Mo;.iH;.xMAe., No. 148. 



tliey ought to preferve their monofvUabi- 

 cal orthography ; but it is iiidifputably a 

 juft and vvell-ijointed remark, (from 

 whoinfoever it originated,) that, general- 

 ly fpeaking, an accented fyllable requires 

 a double, and an unaccented one a angle 

 coiifonaut. 



Our orthograpliy is fo fanciful, difl'atis- 

 fa6(ory, and uufettled, fo mutilated by 

 the aliectatiou and tliejarring fug^eftions 

 of different writers, that it is become aa 

 inluperable dithculty to reduce it to any 

 certain, fixed, and natural principles ; 

 but to turn out the c, as reconnnended 

 by your other C'oricfpondent, when it 

 has the found of k or s, for the fubfiitu- 

 tion of thofe letters, would be fuch an act 

 of mcrcilefs perpetration on fo many 

 words, theat a general concuffion would 

 befall our vocabulary, and render it to- 

 tally unmanageable. The opinion may 

 be i'upportcd by argument, hut it would 

 have a holl of allaihmts to combat, and 

 would exile the confidence of thofe who 

 have intereft in the ftate of literature, 

 without which fuccefs in my undertaking 

 could neither be achieved nor antici- 

 pated. 



In muficA-, critic/r, matliematic/:, and 

 logic/:, I am inflrutted by the fame gen- 

 tleman to retain the k, and ettace the c, 

 becaufe fuch orthography is common to 

 all Gothic nations. Oa this principle 

 the marks that conftituie the character 

 of Gothic architecture, Ihould be retain- 

 ed in the conftrudion of every new fa- 

 bric. The k may be aptly compsfred to 

 the lofty pinnacles, and the prominent 

 buttrelVes, at that period, which the tafte 

 and the judgement of after-ages have re- 

 duced to the modcft altitude and the at^ 

 tractive fynnnetry of c. In a preceding 

 paragraph I am aiked, why retain the rf 

 in jurfgemcnt, fuch orthography being 

 inipropitious to ciyinology ? I anfwer, 

 becaufe the word is accuftomably writ- 

 ten with a d by all autliorj>, and becaufe 

 its extinction would create an abruptnefs 

 and dillbnance in the accentuation of it, 

 and violate the rule c>f doubling confo- 

 nants in eniphatic fyllables. Belide, to 

 reduce implicitly ortliography to deriva- 

 tion, pronunciation to oxthography, or 

 D d orthoj^raphy 



