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ner of a street, where the foot-path was 
left thus insecure; and in another place, 
equally dangerous (Carlisle-lane, Lam- 
beth), A child would, in all probability, 
have experienced a similar | fate, had I 
not been ‘at hand to snatch it from dan- 
ger. The neglect which the poor meet 
with from many of the surgical profes- 
sion, I have had frequent ®p portunities 
of observi ing, when immediate assistance 
was requisite to the preservation of the 
sulferer, That medical men, as well as 
others, have a right to profit by their pro- 
fession, must Ae gr anted ; but a want of 
humanity i in them is less pardonable than 
a want of skill. And rather than the 
life of an individual should be lost, be- 
cause an hospital happens to be distant 
froin the neighbourhood of the accident, 
the county or the parish should reward 
the promptitude and skull of such as give 
relief. : 
Yo shew in what estimation the life 
of a fellow-subject was held by our 
forefathers, fam induced to add the fol- 
lowing extracts from an old work in my 
possession, entitled, “ A Treatise con- 
cerning the Oifice and Authorities of Co- 
roners and Sheriffs :—” 
“Ifa man keepe a dangerous beast, 
as a bull, a beare, a dog, or such like, he 
pee ‘them to be dangerous, and yet 
doth not keepe them tied—if such: beast 
kall a man, woman, or child, it 1s held to 
bee felony in theowner of such beast.” 
“A man falleth out of a cart loaded 
with hay, and the whecie of the cart 
doth breake his leaves, whereof be dyeth, 
and the hay. was adjadue »d to bee a deo-: 
dand, as wellas the cart. are. 
Yours, &:c. 
April &, 1808. T. Ma Fuinpar.. 
—— a 
Zo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
CONSTANT reader of the Month- 
ly Magazine wishes, through the 
medium, of its very res pectable and ex- 
tensive circulation, to enquire W any of 
its numerous readers, advanced in years, 
ean furnish authentic recollections and 
confirmations respecting the very extra- 
ordinary sanative gift, said to be exer- 
cised in the year 1748, by one Bridget 
Bostock, of Coppenhall, near Nampt- 
wich, in Cheshire. She was accustomed 
to receive, according to an account 
published in an old Magazine, at that 
time in considerable circulation, five or 
six hundred, or éven more patients, in a 
AilontuLty Mac., No. 171. 
Plan for recording the Sounds of WVords. 
“AON 
day, of various ranks, and in almost all 
diseases. The means of cure were uni- 
form, aud extremely trivial, but needless 
to mention, as being foreign to the de- 
sign of this enquiry. I wisb to know if 
the fact can, be authenticated by the re- 
collection of any person living, or by re- 
ferences to respectable authorities. 
Your’s, &c. 
Cliffe, April 21, 1808. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S we are sometimes Jed to smile at 
the accentuation, spelling, and way 
our forefathers seem to have pronounced 
their words, and it is probable that pos- 
terity will do the same with regard to 
ours, it would be conferring a eae on 
posterity, if any of your numerous litéra~ 
ry friends could fix on a plan for handing 
down to them, with any tolerable degree 
.of accuracy, the way in which the Tan- 
if, pro- ° 
guages of Europe are, at prese! 
nounced. ‘The sounds of the ene 
animals, which have .been, are, and will 
be the same inal! time coming, might, 
In my opinion, be the basis of such a 
plan. ‘Theocritus, who lived some hun- 
dred years before the days of our Sayi- 
our, in one of his Idyllia, makes one of 
his ale acters say to another, You may* 
go and, like the sheep, cry Ba yt, Ba,a ; 
and Plautus, the Roman poet, who liv ed 
not long after, makes one of his say to 
another, You may go and, like the 
cuckoo, cry Tu, L%. While these, as 
well as a number of other instances that 
might be adduced, serve to point out 
that. the inferior animals cried two thou- 
sand years aso exactly as they do at pre- 
ae they also serve to shew how the an- 
cients sounded certain of the letters in 
their RE Now it occurs to me 
that, as we have in the lanzuage of the 
inferior animals a set of sounds, which 
are always the same, while every thing 
else is perpetually changing, the nations 
of Eurape have only to coimnpare with 
these the way they pronounce the alpha- 
bet, or a certain number of their w ords, 
in pudat to point out to future generas 
tions the way the words they have occa- 
sion to use. were pronounced by tneir 
forefathers. 
Their being dead languages, renders | it 
not a matter of much importance how 
the Grecks and Romans pronounced their 
words. However, ‘as we are certain, 
from their having compared them to 
the sound of the inferior animals, how 
3G they 
