618 
retly hofiile to the pemggipies of the 
latter. 
I afferted, page 6, that ‘inthe reign 
of Charles I. the fociety was pare 
cuted with the greateft degree, of vi : 
which did not abate till 
Wilham and Mary to the Britifl c 
I have finge been told that the hse 
was not perfecuted i in the time of Charles 






oe Tam willing to acknowledge map 
the atest nis made with too great a la- 
Htude. Asayociery perhaps they were 
not perfecuted, no laws, that I know ‘of, 

bein ‘Made againfgthem. But it thould 
alfo be remembe hat the heads of this 
fociety were made the objects of perfonal 
violence, Bbc 
tal cruelty even before the time co 
gommonwealyh, efpecially i during 
firuggle between the Parliament and 
King jeand what the ftate had not time 
er opportunity to perform, the priefts of 
tha day took | care {hould not eae: 
d. Perfecution is perfecution, whether 
it be received fram the | ‘from in- 
dividuals, cr whether you under its 



Jath either perfonally or collectively. 
I belie 



ve this is the only miftake I 
» whi ch fe 
come 
I am one of 

g of the paragraph, page 
ped me in the hurry or 

ofe who confider perfe- 
ellow creatures 35 rebellion 
od. »It isto me equally hateful 
proceeds froma monarch ora 
priekt ; her it refides.in the ee 
at luxury, or fuperf 
in the gloom of a ef ff 
ly inclined to think that Mr. Bourn 



right i in ee “ there are no Mitactors 
oppofite to each other, . 
in: ae world 
than tole of achriftiananda perfecutor*. 
Tthmk, fir, I have not difgraced my 
chara “2 member of ‘the church of 

= 60ers ech T he propriety of fi 
eftablifhme am ready to confefs, and 
am equally ready to declare 
Bett 75. the long ger it W 
Englan a. the ‘condu& of 




that be 
I am, fir, er ; 
Your humble fery ant, 
L—, Aug.9, 1796. CHARLES WiLson. 
ST 
To Co Editor of the. Monthly ong 
PER IT me tomakeafewr ‘son 
the obfervations of your cade 
Merrion upon the Welth Paneasee, 

* Bourn’s Difcourfes, vol, ii, p. 435; 
a 










ecame the viétims of brie 3 



Aeepunes a grammatical one; 
‘Poet foninenb of Seven Quakers. « oe Welfh Language. "Sept, 
There are inthe Welth (he fays) words 
perfectly fimilar in found, to the mytho- 
logic names@of the ancient world, an 
and exattly to moftof the ex Jana- 
ns given, by Gebelin’ and yante 
Mr. Bryant is a very learned man, but 
though “his fyftem may amufe us by its 
Ingenuity, «it is not accurate enough to 
convince. Sanconiathon, Manetho, and 
Beroius, afford but bad on 
which to’ erect a demonftrationy ‘The 
explana vhich Mr. Bryant has gi- 
ven of what he calls t mmoniat 
particles, and on which nds 
em, are entirely conj 3 and 
ures have been by Mr. 
on, tHe ableft of our oriental 
“ts be totally unfounded. 
R there is not the leatt 
bell j in the tenths 
s hiftory in Sie ok 
at now {poken in’ Wales; 
of Monmouth wrote -in 
itifh Hiftory which he 
is fe to “have tranflated, was brought 
( orica, by Walter Mapzens, the” 
‘chdeacon - Oxtord, and 
at that time carfied marks of great an- 
ty A copy of this original hittory 
exift at Wynneftay ; if Meirion 
his copy, he has. confounded the 
Liwi 1, confequent- 
d this proof 
the iabiny a chie Welfh language 
invalidat 
pre 



 Gecofire 

ERCY in his prefaée to his very 
valuable trant f Mallet’s Northern 
tiquities, h on the Pater-Noftet 
the ancient, and the modern Britifh 
I ea cea. I know nothing myfelf of 
the. lang , but the difference to the 
eye is.as evident, as the difference be- 
tween Chaucer and Dryden’s tranflation 
aman who underfiood 








are very beautif hefe 
be compared with the wild majett 
the Runic poems, or the remains 
Offian, whofe exquifite merit has ier 
been, and ever will be acknowledged, 
by thofe who efs, ** the eye that can 
fee 
ture.’ 
Weiter: ala, 
To 
96, 
» 


re, and the heart that can feel 
