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some one of your numerous correspondents will, by the me- 

 dium of your Bee, give a remedy for this evil, and by so 

 doing you will very much oblige your constant reader, 

 "admirer, and humble servant, Ltcurcus. 



Caithnejs, "July 1793. 



Index indicatorius. 

 A JVilberfnrcite sends the following extract from an old book. 



" If a man be found stealing any of his brethren, and maketh 

 merchandise of him, or selleth him ; then that thief ihall die, and thou 

 flialt put evil away from among you." 



Renovatus requests that the following verses may be inserted in 

 the Bee. ■ 



When youth first fili'd ir.y breast with fire, 

 J>Jo bounds were fix'd to my desire. 



All woman kind I lov'd ; , 



The black, the fair, the wit, the prude. 

 The awkward, smart, the mild, the rude. 

 Alike my pafsion mov'd. 



One time with Kate, I was perplex'd ; 

 Sail, Moll, and Sue engag'd me next 



My love for each was equal ; 

 But one sweet fair at length has caught 

 My life, my soul, my heart, my thought. 



As you'll see in the sequel. 



My lovely Ann, sweet Anna fair, 

 My charming Ann, dear Anna rare 



Has caught me on the wing ; 

 It is for Ann, I now do smart, 

 'Tis darling Ann has won my heart. 



Of Ann I mean to sing. --.... 



But our room will not admit of a longer extract. 



K. among other remarks on the Englilh language, observes that 

 " One of the greatest perfections in any language is to have words 

 and exprcfsions ascertaining precisely and universajly the exact de- 

 finition of the ideas accompanying them. Another is to be so pure 

 and distinct in itself as not to stand in need of words peculiar and 

 belonging to a foreign language." He thinks " there is no language 

 capable of the ^hishest degree of improvement and none \\mz\i stands 



