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tiently for the accomplifhment of thofe 
defigns of providence, which yet lie con- 
cealed in the bofom of futurity? Mr. 
Burke’s jJentiments on this: fubject are 
fuch as will readily occur to every candid 
reader. ¢¢ I find,” faith he, ‘* a preacher 
of the gofpel prophaning the beautiful and 
prophetic ejaculation commonly called 
Nunc dimittes, made on the firf prefenta- 
tion of our Saviour in the temple, and ap- 
plying it with an inhuman and unnatural 
rapture to the moft horrid, atrocious, and 
afitiing {pectacle that perhaps ever was 
exhibited to the pity and indignation of 
mankind. This /eading ia triumph, a 
thing in its beft form unmanly and wre- 
ligicus, which fills our preacher with fuch 
unhallowed traniports, muft fhock, I be- 
lieve, the moral tafte of every weil-born 
mind. Several Englifh were the ftupified 
and indignant fpectators of that triumph. 
It was (unieis we have been ftrangely de- 
ceived) a fpeétacle more refembling a pro- 
ceffion of American favages, entering into 
Onondaga, after fome of their murders 
called victories, and leading into hovels, 
hung round with fcalps, their captives 
overpowered with the fcoffs avd buffeis 
of women as ferocious as themfelves, 
much more than it refembled the trium- 
phal pomp of a civilized martial nation, 
jfa_ eivilized nation, oy any men who had 
a fenfe of generofity, were capable cf a 
perfonal triumph over the fallen and af- 
fiicted.”’* I an, Sir, 
Your Contiant Reader, 
 ALUL 
ee 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR Correfpondent Philcprepon has 
my thanks for his remarks in your 
laft Magazine, on the pronounciation of 
proper names, particulariy the names of 
places. _It_may, indeed, admit of a doubt 
whether it can be coniidered fo fettled a 
point as Philoprepon fuppoies, that we 
are in all cafes to give words the fame 
énunciation-that they have in their native 
countries. Take, for inftance, fuch as 
Paris, Calais, &c. we do not hear them 
in Englifth companies pronounced exacily 
after the French manner. 
Being engaged in a geographical work 
for the ufe of {chools, I am extremely de- 
frous of introducing (befides feveral cther 
a Fre ee 
* Butke’s Works, vol. v. p. 184, 
Guery on Pronunciation. 
[ Dec. 1, 
new plans, which, I hope, will prove ac- 
ceptable and ufeful to the inftru@tors of 
youth) fome guide to the pupil in the pro. 
nunciation of the proper names that will 
occur in it. I am well aware of the dif- 
ficulty of deciding in a great variety of 
cafes, and particularly in the curious quef- 
tion already referred to. Nor is it at all 
to my purpofe to determine that point ; 
my only aim being to afford. fome affift- 
ance, and that of a very jimited kind, ta 
young people, in afcertaining what the 
moit approved pronunciation of thefe 
words a¢tually is in this country. When 
we confider how many se{pectable perfons 
efpecially females (the infruétors of 
others, perhaps, themfelves) affociate all 
their geographical knowledge with names 
which they have few opportunities of hear- 
ing pronounced at all, and fo frequently 
fubject th:mfeives to unmerited ridicule, 
it cannot be doubted that an afliftance of 
this kind, if afforded with any toleraole 
accuracy, would be found particularly 
uieful. If the plan were only to mark 
the accented fyllable, and to give fome 
general directions, fuch as your Corre- 
fpondent favours-us with, as to the found 
of fh, {ch, ch, anda few other little dif- 
ficulties of that kind, confiderable advan- 
tages would be gained. I have already 
taken fome pains in fteking information 
amongft different defcripions of perfons, 
and 1 have lately {een fomething of the 
kind, though of very dubious authority, 
at the end of Perry’s Pronouncing Dic- 
tionary. 
The purport of this letter is to inquire 
through the favour of your valuable Ma- 
gazine, whether amongit the number of 
your intelligent Correfpondents, there be 
any who would fo far intcreft themfelves 
in the fuccefs of fuch an attempt as to 
fugget to the writer of this article what 
appears to them the belt mode of obtain- 
ing the requifite information. Letters on 
the fubject will be gratefully received 
addrefled to, Sir, 
Ormfkirk, Your Conftant-Reader, 
Now, 12, 1803. JosepyH BaRRETT. 
— ae = 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
YT READ, with much pleafure, in the 
AU laf&- number of your Magazine, a very 
elegant tribute to the memory of the late 
Mr. Ritfon, a man to whom (to borrow 
kis 
