Irish Transportations- 
German, 
Leber. 
I si an die. 
Lifur. 
Danish, 
Lever. 
Belgic, 
Lever. 
Dutch, 
Lever. 
Greek, 
‘H-crcitp. 
latin. 
Jecur. 
Italian, 
Fbgato. 
French, 
Foie. 
Spanish, 
Higado. 
The insertion of this will oblige, 
Hackney, Aug. 8, 1811. F. 
To the Editor of th^ Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE Irish practice of transporting 
Vagrants to Botany Bay, so properly 
noticed at page 368 of a late “ Treatise 
on the Powers and Duties of Juries,” is 
in no degree checked b} that notice; for 
by the Dublin Evening Post, of the 6th of 
August, I observe, that no less than six 
women were, at the last Monaghan as¬ 
sizes, subjected to the like punishment 
for the alleged offence ofVagrantism ! 
Take the paragraph as it there appears: 
“ Catherine Tynan, Catherine M‘Do¬ 
nald, M^ry Charleton, Susanna Fitz¬ 
gerald, Ann M‘Derinott, and Catherine 
Ivixon, presented as vagrants by the 
grand jury; ordered to be transported 
for''seven years, unless they gave security 
for their future good behaviour.” 
One is curious to know under wliat 
law, by what principle, or by wliat circum- 
stances, these expatriations aie directed, 
and liow it happens that the presentation 
of a grand jury can be the instrument of 
such a sentence, or order, ns it is called, 
without the verdict of a pettit jury. 
Perhaps trial by jury is not so generally 
recognised in Ireland as in England; or 
there may be some law in Ireland to 
warrant transportation, without the ver¬ 
dict of a pettit jury! On these points 
I confess my ignorance, and wi-h to be 
informed by some of your Irish corre¬ 
spondents. llUMANITAS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AGREE with your correspondent, 
Mr. Tompkins, in regard to the evi¬ 
dently superior pretensions of Blair's 
Universal Preceptor, and an atten¬ 
tive perusal of it warrants me in characte- 
ri-^ing it, as the Sun among school-books. 
Such a work cannot fail to have the 
happiest effects in all our public schools ; 
and if taught to the whole population, 
would give an impulse to the public mind, 
equal to several generations of ordinary 
vulgar education. It brings all know- 
kdge down to che level of the most ordi- 
Blair^s Preceptor — Saxon, 129 
nary capacity, and says enough in its 
own original way, on every subject, at 
once, to instruct, and to pique further 
enquiry.—It accords also with that sys¬ 
tem of examination by interrogation, 
which has of late years been in troduced into 
our schools, and connected with srme of 
our scliool-books, with so happy an effect. 
Your readers, in general, must be 
glad to see the merits of school-books 
discussed, as the next point about which 
to possess correct information, after it 
has been agreed that Education itself is 
the best security against crimes, and the 
best foundation of virtue, consequentty 
of happiness—consequently of public 
prosperity! L. Bowyer, 
Falmouth, Aug. 10, 1811. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
S many of tlie words in the English 
are derived from the Saxon lan¬ 
guage, I should be glad to know from any 
of your correspondents what means there 
are of acquiring the knowledge of that 
language, as written or spoken in this 
country du'ing the Heptarchy. L. 
Bond-street, Ap'^il 29, 1811. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
An ACCOUNT of PERNAMBUCO.'*^ 
HE great jealousy wliich the,Por¬ 
tuguese have observed from time 
immemorial, in all their commercial 
dealings, has induced them to prohibit 
foreigners visiting this coast; and before 
the period when the Prince Regent emi¬ 
grated with his court to Rio Janeiro, if 
any foreign vessel was discovered upon it, 
she was liable to confiscation, and her 
crew to imprisonment. But since this 
has taken place, as mankind in general 
go from one extreme to the other, we 
have had free access to all their ports; 
and, to say the truth, we are now allowed, 
like the Jews in Turkey, to monopolize 
nearly the wljole of their trade, even the 
coasting part of it. Previous to this 
event, we were so little acquainted with 
the Brazils, that in most of our maps, 
this place is called “ Olinda, or Pernam¬ 
buco,” though those are in fact two sepa¬ 
rate and distinct places, the first a city, 
and the second a populous town, distant 
from each other at least three miles. 
As I believe no one has ever yet fa¬ 
voured the public with an account 
* We heartily wish our readers in general 
in foreign settlements, would imitate the coit^i 
duct ot this inUlligentcort«spondent. 
Editor. 
