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fumed oppofition of meaning between the 
Latin word reclufus and its Englith de- 
vivative reclufe, they are indebted for the 
very elegant analyfis in your laft Number, 
from the pen of Mr. Wakefield; of the 
power in compofition of the particle re. 

i have been the radical or predominant 
| fenfe, the following paflage from Juftin, 
it, lib. i. 9, feerns fufficient to eftablifh that, 
prior to the corruption of Latinity in the 
middle ages, the word reclufus was at 
leat occafienally uled by the Romans in the 
{ame fenfe as reclufe isby us. ‘* Orthanes 
ger internuntios quarit a fita, que’ inter 
regias pelliccs erat, an Cyri regis filius rex 
effet. At, ila nec fe fewe, nec ex alia pofe 
cognofcere, quia fingule feparatim reclu- 
dantur.”” 
I am aware, that it ftill remains to be 
explained why the language of any people, 
fo highly polifhed as the Romans, fhould 
have admitted of one and the fame word 
being ufed in oppofite or contradictory 
fenfes; but the purpofe of my obfervation 
is attained, if, in Mr. Wakeficld’s judge- 
ment, I have fucceeded in my attempt to 
fhew, that no perverfion of the legitimate 
fenfe of the word can be imputed to the 
Englifh or other modern tongues, in their 
; acceptation of its derivatives. 
A May I beg permifiion only to add, that, 
a in common with every admirer of Mr. 
“a Wakefeld’s charafter and talents, I long 

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to hail the happy period when the Englifh 
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4 erivative in quettion, fhall no longer be 
A applicable to the predicament of fo accom- 
plithed a fcholar. 
Ldinourgh. B. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Macazine. 
Dy Ly £40 
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SIR; 
N the well written account of Wafh- 
“a ington, in your laft Number, I think 
i the author has rather exceeded, in point of 
I candour, in what he fays on the {mall de- 
a || gree of cruelty exe: Cl.ed by, either party 
1 | during the American war. It is certain, 
| that the Britifi forces committed fome 
horrid aéts of bavbarity. And, general 
Burgoyne, in one of his proclamations, ma- 
nifeficd fo much of the favace, threatening 
to let loofe his Indian allies with ther 
fealping-knives, which he shad put into 
their hands, as flled every humane reader 
with horror, and excited the fecret hope, 
that Providence would deteat his bloody 
deficn. ‘This was the cafe with, 
Your's, HiuMaNITAs. 
March6, 1800. 

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Prefent State of Schools in Ruffia. 
Hn But whatever grammarians may deem to. 
t May 45 
To the Editar of the Monthly Magazirz. 
SIR, 
S {ome of your readers may be igno- 
A rant of the beft way of preferving 
apples, I am happy to have it in my power 
to inform them of two modes, which, from 
perfonal experience, J can affert to anfwer 
as well asneed be wifhed. One of them 
is fimply thus: To put a layer of apples 
and a layer of dried ferz, alternately, ura™ 
box or bafket (the former is the beft, as 
admitting lefs air) and coverthem clofely. 
I haveeaten Crotton andother apples, kept 
in this manner, in June, which were not — 
only found, but fweet and juicy: Fern: 
potfefles this advantage over ftraw, viz. 
that it never gives the apples‘a mufty 
tafte, which ftraw is very apt to do. 
The other method is by keeping them 
in an exXhauited receiver; which may be 
dene in this manner; firft dry a glazed 
jar perfectly well, put a few pebbles inthe 
bottom; fill the jar with apples, and co- 
ver it with a bit of wood made to fit ex- 
a&tly; and over that put a little frefh mor- 
tar. The pebbles attraét the damp of the 
apples. ‘The mortar draws the air from 
the jar, and leaves the apples free fromits 
prefiure, which, together with the principle 
_of putrefaction which the air contains, are 
the caufes of decay. I have feen apples 
which had been kept thus, quite found, 
fair and juicy, in July. 3 
. D. S$. has my thanks for his obliging an- 
{wer to my enquiries. Tam, &c. dear Sip, 
Feb. 12, 1800. T. toe 

For the Moathly Magazine. 
Of the PRESENT STATE of SCHOOLS and 
INSTITUTIONS for PUBLIC INSTRUC= 
TION 72 RUSSIA. 
O infticute well-regulated fehools in 
ae the country end in towns for the 
common people, has not yet ferioufly en- 
gaged the attention of the Ruffian govern- 
ment. There exi{t, indeed, here and there, 
popular fchools, but the teachers are far 
from being qualifed to anfwer the pur- 
pofes of thefe inftitutions. And now even 
the feminaries for educating teachers for 
thefe fehecls has been fupprefied ; and no 
ne feems to give himfelf any concern how 
the future vacancies are to be filled: for 
which reagon it is to be feared that the po- 
pular fchools will again by degrees en- 
tirely difappear. . In Livonia, Efthomia,: 
and Courland, the fame danger does not 
‘xift; for in thefe provinces not only are 
{choolmatters appointed for inftruéting the 
children ¢f the’ peafantry ; but it is the 
duty of the minifter of every parifh to fee 
that the young folks attend the — 
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