a4 Enquiry refpelting a French Work, the Knight Errant. [Feb.t, 
of GreekandLatinprofodyand orthography, 
thus expreffes himieif in a letter which now 
lies before me—‘‘Tefteem ita happy thought 
of yours to apply the known pronuncia- 
tien of the living languages to the very 
wncertain one of the dead or ancient.” 
Encouraged by fuch an authority, I 
would point to the Italian language, in 
which we {ee the prepofition joined to the 
article, with a fenfible alteration in the ac- 
cent, as de lo, dello, a lo, allo, &c. And 
then in thofe words which we pronounce 
alarm and alert, what combinations, what 
changes of accent, have taken place! Ori- 
ginally written a le arme (to arms), a la 
erta (to the hill*), they were fucceifively 
altered to alle arme, alla erta, all arme, 
all’ erta, whence the French, who do:not 
imitate the Italians in doubling the initial 
confonant of the article after the prepofi- 
tion, fermed their alarme and alerte. 
But, quitting the Latin and Italian 
and*Prench languages,—do we not in 
Englifh unite the article or prepofition 
with the noun, making a difference in the 
tene er accent, which is fenfibly felt by 
every man who has anear? Let us, for 
example, feparately pronounce the words 
A, An, The, At, On, Iu, To, Lot, Oar, 
King, Home, Shore, Bed, Rome, and then 
fay A lot, An oar, The king, At home, On 
Jrore, In bed, To Rome: furely it will not 
be denied, that, in each of the latter cafes, 
we actually pronounce the twowordsas one, 
throwing ali the emphafis upon the fecond 
fyllable, and leaving the firft deftitute of 
that which it feparately poffefied before. 
When Mr. Dyer adverts to fuch changes 
in fober profe, and. moreover confiders the 
very ftrong propenfity of the Greeks to 
unite prepotitions with verbs and nouns 
into compound words, beyond any thing 
that can be paralleled in Englifh or French 
or Italian or even Latin, perhaps he may 
feel inclined to retract hisconclufion that 
‘© Mr. Carey has been led inio his infe- 
rence by miftaking the fhift of the ver/ifer 
for a rule of pronunciation.”” 
I cannot Jay down my pen without 
making my acknowledgements to Mr. Dyer 
for the favourable opinion he has been 
pleafed to exprefs refpecting my “ Latiz 
Profody made eafy’—an opinion which I 
fhail not tail duly to appreciate. 
I conclude, Sir, 
. Yours, &c. 
J. Carey. 
Merlin’s Place, Clerkenwell, 
‘fan. 2, 1801. 
* Or, on the up-hill path. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I HAVE lately met with two manu- 
{cript copies in Welfh of a work inti- 
tled Margog Crwydrad, or Knicut Er- 
RANT; a very good moral romance ; and 
both thefe tranfcripts feem to have been 
made about the time of Henry VII. The 
beginning of each had been loft, but: the 
firft leaf of one of them has been reftored, 
and apparently by Thomas Wilkins, as I 
find his name annexed, and alfo on the 
cover, with the date 1656. The begin- 
ning fhews the work to be a tranflation, 
for it runs thus: ‘* Llyma Lyvyr, a zan- 
gos Treigyl y Marcoc CRwybDRaD ; yr 
hwn a zy¢ymygoez Sion KarTHEN 
PHRANK 3 ac a droes WiLL1IAM Gopy- 
DaR, o'r Phrangeg yn Saefoneg.” “That 
is—‘** This is the book which fhews the 
adventures of the Knicur ERrRANT; the 
which was imagined by JouN CarTHEN 
Frank ; and which was turned by Win- 
L1aM GODYDakr, out of Frexch into Eag- 
lifh.” 
I fhould be glad to learn if any of your 
correfpondents have feen the original 
French work, or the Englifh tranflation ; 
and, if either of them be known, where it 
can be now probably found, 
Jan. i, 1801. ILremain, yours, &c. . 
Me1R ION. 
‘To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ‘ 
N attempt was lately made in this 
_ town to introduce a houfe of induftry 
for the poor, on the plan of the Shrewfbu- 
ry Houle—See Mr. Woods’s fifth edition 
of an Account of the Houfe of Induftry at 
that place—it however failed for the pre-— 
fent, chiefly from an antipathy that fome 
of the 4igh party had to the principles of 
the propofer, and in part alfo from the 
two following objeétions, I fhall be glad to 
fee anfwered in your very popular mifcel- 
lany (which may lead on toa farther’ dif- 
cuffion): the firft objeétion was, that to 
obtain the amount wanted, appeared like 
conftituting a finking fund, the prefent ge- 
neration faddling themfeives with a bur- 
den too grievous to be borne, for the fake 
of fuccceding ones ; and, fecondly, that a: 
fuficient number of active men could not 
be obtained, after the death of the projec- 
tors, nor indeed could they be zow 
had. 
Allow me, Sir, to point out a curious 
paflage in the 203d page of the 4th.vo- 
lume of Mr. Godwin’s St. Leon—After 
: many 
