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- portions of labour and of perseverance, 
~ both in the tutor and the pupil; but 
- these preliminaries admitted, all ampe- 
diments are curable. I have happily 
demonstrated, beyond my own most 
sanguine anticipations, that, by the di- 
higent application of my principles, even 
. those persons who have fissures and de- 
' Bciencies of the palate, may nevertheless 
_ be taught to speak with a perfect enun-- 
ciation, and an agreeable tone of voice, 
- without the troublesome and dangerous 
application of artificial organs. 
J. THetwatt. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
EAM a freeman of the city of London, 
but through unavoidable misfortunes, 
have been compelled with my wife and 
family to seek refuge in St. Luke’s Work- 
house, where my wife lately lay-in. Due 
ring that time, the parish-oflicers took 
away our only girl, little more than eleven 
years of age, and against our consent 
bound her apprentice to a cotton manu- 
factory, upwards of two hundred miles 
from London. Arespectable friend made - 
application to the overseers, and offere 
to take her, but they would not let him 
have her, nor would they let me out of 
‘the gate from the time they took her 
Out and bound her, til after she had 
been sent into the country. My wife, 
at the time, had not !ain-in more 
than a week; and thus to lose her daugh- 
ter, nearly deprived her of her reason. 
‘ [ wish some of your correspondents, 
‘Jearned in the laws, would cundescend to 
inform a poor man, whether itis legal for 
‘a child of her tender age, to be thus 
‘bound and sent away without the consent 
of her parents; if such binding can stand 
good; and if not, whether, and by what 
means, I can compel them, to return her 
to her distressed and unhappy parents. 
July 20,1810. J. W. GascorGne. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Mugazine. 
SIR 
AVING read in your Monthly Ma- 
gazine of June last, Number 199, 
‘a letter signed Verax, recommending the 
use of the plant Stramonium in cases of 
spasmodic asthma, and being myself 
occasionally much afflicted with that dis- 
order, it.would be of much benefit to me, 
amongst others of his fellow-sufferers, if 
Verax would inform us, through the me- 
‘dium of your publication, whether the 
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Transfer of Poor Children to the Cotton-IMills. [Sept. t, 
stem and root of the plant should be 
dred, or whether any preparation is n€= 
cessary, before it is smoked. 
Chester, ; ; B.C. 
July 30, 1810. 7 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T appears to me that many writers 
make use of the particle as impro- 
perly, as in the following sentence: “A 
woman must know, that her person can- 
not be ws pleasing to her husband as it 
was to her lover; and if she be offended 
with him for being a human creature, she 
. may as well whine about the loss of his 
heart as about any other foolish thing.” 
—M. Wollstonecroft. Every reader, £ 
think, will say that so should take the 
place of as, before the word pleasing, in 
the quoted sentence. I remember no 
rule in any English grammar for this pre- 
ference of so to as; but I think the fole 
lowing would be correct: So, should not 
be used within any ccomparatives, but 
the comparative of inferiority. Exam- 
ples: That rule is not so goad as this: 
_this rule is as good as that: Comp. egua- 
hty. It is thrice as far from London to 
C. as from C. to R., &c. Comp. superi- 
ority. 
August, 1810. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
WISH to inquire of some of your 
philological readers, the authority” 
for a mode of expression very frequently 
made use of by the writers in the Edin- 
burgh Review, and by some other Scotch 
authors, which differs from the custom of 
English writers. I allude to the use of 
the word that, after a comparative ad- 
jective, in cases where, in this county, we 
usually employ because. Thus the writers 
above-mentioned would say— This is 
the more extraordinary, that, &¢.—We 
have dwelt the more on this point, that, 
&c.” The same mode of expression is 
frequently used by professor D. Stewart, in 
his “ Philosophy of the Human Mind.” 
I have some faint recollection of having 
seen this expression enumerated in a list 
of Scotticisins; yet one would hardly 
think such a writer as professor Stewart, 
would be guilty of a Scotticism so ob- 
viously such, as to have been mentioned 
long ago, as one of the more glaring in= 
stances of impropriety in languaye. _ 
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