406 
—S——_ 
Total of Eng: 
land’ and Wales. § 
On the Acquisition of the Anglo-Saxon Language. 
8 Ug47,957 | 1,180,975 |105,491 
[Dec. ¥, 
PAYMENTS OUT OF THE 
a J 
NUMBER Sh Fees PARISH ASSESSMENTS,| |= e 
Chietly Chiefly in jNot com-} For/other a | hee 
WALES. employ- Trade, Ma- prised in} purposes Expended | # |= 5 
ed in | nufactures, ‘either of than Relief | for Relief] <>] 5 
Agricul-| or Handi- |the pre-]. of the of the 2 3 
ture. craft. éeding. | Poor. Poor... | mo |e 
Total of England) L, 2. 
brought forward | 773,732 1,118,295 |454,690 | 1,289,722 | 6,102,253 |2284|2065 
Anglesey-++++e++| 6,187 1,702 1,936 2,089 15,532 9 
Brecon ‘seeeeces| 4,039 5,705 1,280 3,819 16,566 4' 
Cardigan e+++eere} 6,312 2,501 3,258 3,720 14,885 10 
Carmarthen ----| 9,628 4,825 3,941 5,531 27,289 2 
Carnarvon ------ 6,890 2,649 1,959 2,868 16,226 4 1¥z 
“gDenbigh----++++} 8,625 4,399 2,655 5,454 32,658 | 4 Tz 
Flint) ¢.2.se 4,421 3,531 2,659 3,739 19,470 11 
Glamorgan e-.---| 7,126 8,336 4,852 5,376 56,179 28 
Merioneth ------}...3,570 1,454 2,975 2,000 14,559 7 
Montgomery: «+++! 6,594 5,882 1,580 4,499 33,272 & 
Pembroke «+++++| 7,651 3,779 |. 3,472 5,130 20,245,|.. 39). 14 
Radnor vees-+e-] 3,182 941 656 2,564 11,974 & 
Total of Wales 74,225 41,680 | 30,801 46,810 | 256,449 | 290] 193 
1,336,552 | 6,558,702. |2504/2188 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
_ SIR, 
N the Jast number of your Maga- 
zine, Philograins alludes to my 
letter‘on the works that were prepar- 
ing to facilitate the acquisition of the 
Anglo-Saxon language. He appears 
to be disappointed that more than a 
year has elapsed since I wrote, and 
Only two of the works that I men- 
tioned have been published. He must 
be aware that works, on this subject, 
require ‘much care and laborious 
researclt, and that accuracy is of 
much more importance than expedi- 
tion.” They will, however, all appear 
in} due ‘time. We are assured that, 
“Thelovers of Saxon literature may 
shortly expect to be highly gratified by 
the appearance of Mr. Conybeare’s 
Illastrations of Anglo-Saxon, early 
English, and' Norman French Poetry.””* 
T.W. Kaye, esq. of the Middle Temple, 
is ‘proceeding with his ‘translation of 
the Anglo-Saxon laws ; Mr. Bosworth 
is ‘employed in a Saxon Dictionary, 
with explanations in Knglish; and J. 
8. Cardale; solicitor, Leicester, has in 
hand* an! English translation of King 
Alfred's Saxon version ‘of Boethius. 
These: wih ‘will perhaps satisfy Philo- 
* See. roam orth’s Anglo-Saxon Gram- 
mar, Preface, page xxxvil. 
graius, and convince him, that neither 
Philosaxonicus, nor his friends, are 
“resting upon their oars.” 
I shall now make a few remarks on 
the criticisms that Philograius has 
given upon the assertions made at the 
Preface to Mr. Bosw orth’s Saxon 
Grammar. While I must ‘admire. the 
spirit in which Philograius writes, 
truth compels me to state, that I do 
not find Mr. Bosworth has made one 
“sweeping conclusion:” his premises 
are all legitimate, and his conclusions 
just, as would have been evident, if 
your correspondent had been more 
exact in his quotations. Mr, Bosworth 
docs not say, ‘The present language 
of Englishmen is completely Angk 0- 
Saxon; but, ‘“‘ the present language of 
Englishmen i is not that heterogeneous 
compound which some imagine, com- 
piled from the jarring and. corrupted 
elements of Hebrew, Greek, Latin, 
French, Spanish, and Jtalian, but com- 
pletely Anglo-Saxon in its whole 
idiom and construction, (Preface, p. 
xi.) What can be here intended, but 
that the present English is entirely 
built on a Saxon foundation. If all 
the particles, most of the monosylla- 
bles, and many of the dissyllables, i in 
the present English, are, derived. im- 
mediately from the Saxon; and if the 
general inflection of nouns, pronouns, 
and verbs, with the construction of 
sentences, 
