200 on personal pronouns. Oct. lo. 



of the pronoun. This confusion, however, might be 

 entirelj avoided, and the writer left in perfect free- 

 dom in this respect, if, instead of one pronoun only, 

 for each of the genders, we had two or more. One of 

 these words for each gender being invariablj applied 

 to denote the speaker only, another word to be as 

 invariably appropriated to denote the party addrefs- 

 ed, and a third or a fourth to be in the same man- 

 ner appropriated to stand in place of the person se- 

 cond or third mentioned, in case that fhould ever oc- 

 cur. To exemplify at once the inconvenience here 

 complained of, and the great facility with which it 

 could be obviated, I Ihall beg leave to produce an 

 imaginary case. 



The following card will sufficiently prove the want 

 of the variation here complained of with respect to 

 the Englifli language : and all other languages I 

 know are equally deficient as to this particular. 



" Mr A, presents his compliments to Mr B, will 

 " be glad to have the pleasure of his company to din- 

 " ner, when he hopes he will be entertained by the 

 " singing of Signiora Martini, as he knows he is 

 " pafsionately fond of music ; and it will always 

 " give him a very sensible pleasure to contribute to 

 *' his amusement." 



This card, which could hardly be intelligible in 

 its present form, on account of the frequent repeti- 

 tion of the same pronoun, as applied to diiferent per- 

 sons, would have been perfectly intelligible had we 

 a different pronoun for the party addrefsing, and the 

 party addrejsed. This we can easily prove by sub- 

 stituting a lady instead of a gentleman addrefsed ; as 



