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18 Explanation of Reclufe, Ee. 
panegyrics ? For my own part, eftablith 
the authenticity of the likenefs, and I will 
believe the teftimony of a man’s counte- 
nance in preference to his hiftorian, even 
though he fhould produce better vouchers 
than the hiftorians of. antiquity generally 
give themfelves the trouble to quote. 
Perhaps, indeed, our admiration of Brutus 
and Caffius may have been carried too far. 
Perhaps we wrong the holy name of li- 
berty, when we rank among its champions 
the confpirators who affaffinated Cefar. | 
ft is not by crimes that the virtue of a 
country is to be reftored. It is not by 
executing even a tyrant unheard and un- 
arraigned, that liberty and juftice are to 
be promoted. But this fubjeét would 
Jead to an elaborate differtation. 
The gardens at Wilton are not equal 
to the houfe. There is, however, a fine 
fupply of water, well difpofed; and the 
noble plantations, the fhadowy walks, the 
fcattered iflands and furrounding foreft 
{cenery, in bright and glowing weather, 
muft have a fine effect.- The view of Sa- 
lifbury, in which the cathedral makes a 
prominent feature, from the cafino and 
triumphal arch, is very delightful. 
Our walk over the houfe and gardens 
had already coft us fix thillings 3 and we 
flattered ourfelves, that we had no more 
exactions'to encounter. But, as we were 
going paft the porter’s lodge, a fervant 
ftopped us with a frefh demand ; inform- 
ing us, in plain language, that ‘ they 
were all ftationed there for their fees, and 
nobody could come in er cut without pay - 
ing.” We accordingly fubmitted to be 
fleeced once more. Iam told, that this 
kind of tax upon the curioiity of travellers 
is peculiar to this country; and furely it 
is fomewhat furprizing, that the pride and 
by a of greatnefs fhould-not fpurn 
the illiberal idea of fupporting its fervants 
en the alms of curiofity. But there is a 
nobleman in tne county of Derby, who is 
reported not only to fave the expence of 
wages by this expedient, but abfolutely to 
make a bargain with his houfekeeper for 
half the vails collected by exhibiting his 
splendid manfion. 
(Zo be continued.) 
== 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
N the queftion propofed in your Jaft 
number by Mr. Wefley, with re- 
{pect to the words reclufus and reclufe, I 
beg leave to*make a few remarks for the 
perufal of Mr. Wefley, and the public, 
fhould you deem them worthy of infertion. 
The word res is thus defined jn Fabri The- 
o 
[Feb. Ks 
fauro, * Res eft vocabulum generale rerum 
omnium que corpora dici noz poiiunt.”’ 
If the precéding definition 5e accurate, the 
word ves may be ufed with the ftritteft 
propriety as the reprefentative of that 
clafs of ideas, which by metaphyficians 
are denominated ideas of abftraétion. 
Power, therefore, being an affociate of 
this numerous tribe, will be exprefied by 
the word under confideration. As a con- 
firmation of the propriety of the definition 
above quoted, I obferve, that it is in a 
great meafure fanctioned by the authority 
of Ainfworth, who comprehends power 
under the fignifications of res. 
Power may be regarded either in its 
fimple application, or attendant confe- 
quences. The effects of power exerted on 
a body may be confidered in two different 
points of view; viz. as direé and reflex. 
If a certain degree of power be applied to 
a body in a ftate of reff, the dire confe- 
quence of this communicated force will be 
_its motion ; the remote or reflex effect, the 
difpofition and aé€tual reverfion of the, 
body, after it has attained its acme of ve- 
locity, to its former ftate of quielcence. FE. 
cannot be underftood to infinuate, that this 
latter confequence is the refult of impref- 
fed force, as its efficient caufe; all I mean 
to affert is, that the return of the body in 
queftion to a ftate of reft, is an event /ub- 
Jfequent to the applied force, and may there- 
fore, fo far, be confidered as its concomi- 
tant effect, 
Having premifed thus much refpecting 
the application and effeéts of power, I ent- 
er on the proof, that the meaning of thofe 
words which have the monofyllable rz 
(the ablative of res) prefixed, perfeétly 
harmonizes with the idea I have fuggeited 
on the term under confideration. To enu- 
merate all the compounds of re, were a 
tafk equally tedious and needlefs; a few 
examples will be fufficient for my prefent 
defign. The words reluctor, repugno, and 
refifto evidently imply the application of a 
force fuperior to that which can be affirm- 
ed of the incompounded terms, /u4or, 
pugnoy and fifio. ‘Thus ludéfor means to 
firive; but reludor, to wreftle, fappofes the 
higkeft degree of corporeal exertion. The 
fame remarks are equally juft with refpec& 
to the words repugze and reéfifio. 
I will now adduce a few examples of 
thofe compounds of re, which indicate a 
reflex effect 5 refpicio, redamo, repuerafco, 
and recludo, are inftances in point. ‘The 
cafe of Orpheus exhibits fo appofite an 
illuftration of my ideas on the import of 
the preceding words, that I cannot refift 
my inclination to quote the paflage in 
which it is deferibed, Orpheus, havjng 
hyd obtained 
