\ \ 
gs it contains particular references to the 
documents, in which my prior claims 
will be found to those parts of the doc- 
trines of the “ Grammar of English Pro- 
punciation,” for which Mr. 8. could 
have no authority in the authors to whom 
he refers. 
p.S. That T may not be suspected of shel- 
tering myself under the vague pretence of 
references to works, through the whole of 
which few persons can be expected to wade 
merely for satisfaction on such peints, 
é seeking (according to the old proverb) for 
a needle in a bottle of hay,” it may not be 
amiss to particularize the grounds of my 
claims by title, date, and pages In the 
printed prospectus, OF outlines, whichy for 
several years, I have been in the habit of 
using, binding up with my books of selec~ 
tions, and otherwise amply distributing, p. 
$9 to $4, and particularly at the bottom of 
p. 52, will be found sufficient evidence of the 
stress laid on the quantity of the consonant 
elements. In ‘*Dr. Rees’s New Cyclo- 
peda,” vol. xii. part it. title “ Element in 
the Science of Elocution,” will be found 
some specific references to this document, 
with quotations, é&c., avowedly from my pen. 
in the Prospectus (some copies of which, 
printed as early as in the month of March, 
3805, are still in my possession ) and which 
$ias been multiplied through several editions, 
each consisting uf some thousand copies, 
the ‘implication, or vocal comoination of 
“words,” and the principle of ‘* continuous 
harmony” (or unintérrupted flow of the 
stream of voice through the respective mem- 
bers of a sentence), as removing the hypercri- 
tical “* prejudices about monosyllabies,” dc, 
are expressly laid down as subjecis to be ce- 
scanted upon in my Jectures: and in 1607, a 
copy or this announcement was circulated to 
every known seminary, and aimosi every 
public and private teacner In and around the 
metropelis. in the lectures se announced, this 
principle was not only fully explained, but 
it was frequently and ardently contended, 
that in peint of monosyllabic or polysyliabic 
structure, the English language and the 
Greek, (when the former is rightly under~ 
stood, and we!l delivered) cifier only to the 
eye, and not to the ear; my regular cefinition 
or the perfection of ejocuiicnary otterance 
being, that it consited in ‘* 2 mode of speak- 
ing or of reading, that combined the utmost 
coniradistinctness of element, with the most 
uninterrapted flow of vocal sound.” Under 
the title “¢ Enunciation,” in the above quo- 
ted Cyclopedia, vol. xiii. part 1, wili he 
found (with the formal evowal of my name, 
and re‘erence to my lectures) a still more 
arpie and explicit elucidation of this princi- 
ple of ‘implication,’ or the combination of 
wores in oval utterance, which are graphically 
separated; and by which, without injury to 
che istelligible distinctness OF the respective 
Mr. Thelwall’s Reply to Mr. Smart. 
[Nov. ?, 
words, all differences of auditory impression 
are removed between monosyllabic and poly- 
syllabic composition.” The article alse 
contains a very particular description of the 
process, by which this combination of appa- 
rently separate words, is to be effected; with 
#Hustrations the most explicit and unequi- 
vocal. Under the title ** Elocution,” in 
the second column of the second page of the 
same volume, will be found an explicit siate= 
ment of my principle, relative to the treat 
ment of impediments, by applying the laws 
of musical proportion to the utterance of 
speech. And in that article, will also be 
found, some statement of the physiological 
bases, upon which the principle is founded. 
The reader who will turn to the Monthly 
Magazine for fune, 1804, vol. xvii. 
p- 466, col. 1. vol. xtx, p. 348, and vol, 
xxve p. 204, col. 1, or to the collection 
of miscellaneous articles on this subject, 
reprinted in the Appendix to my Letter to 
Mr. Cline 3 or to the Introductory Discourse 
printed in 1806, (p. 6and 7) that has accom- 
panied all my volumes of selections and ex- 
ercises, &c.; or p. 13, of a more recent edi- 
tion of the same, accompanying ‘the Ves- 
tibule of Eloquence,’? will find, that six years 
ago Mr. S. might have adopted that idea from 
me, which he tells us, came into his head; 
and that since that time, he has had abun- 
dant opportunities of having his memory ré- 
freshed upon the subject, without even the 
necessity of o#e actual attendance in my lec- 
ture-room., In vol. 23, p..581, of the same 
M. MM. will be found a general, and in vol. 
24, p.41, a more particular, account of a 
public exhibition of the pupils of my insti- 
tution, on the 19th of fune, 1807 ; in which, 
not only this principle was explained, but its 
efficiency practically demonstrated. And 
perhaps some persons there may be, who, 
while they are perusing the last of these ar- 
ticles, may be disposed to think it not very 
extraordinary, if 1 shou'd have suspected that 
the account of this exhibitien was among the 
citcumstances present in the imegination of 
Mr. S. when he talked of §* tae plan having 
been found to answer.”? In the said M. M, 
vol. xxii. p. 29, col. 2, will be also found, 
whence might have been derived the distinc. 
tion between /oudness and force, in all the am~ 
plitude of its explanation. When Mr. 3, shall 
‘as patticular!y point out any passages in any of 
p yP yp y 
the authors he has quoted, or in any other ay- 
thors, from which be can pretend to have de- 
rived any of the doctrines to which I lay claim 
‘(in the letter this P.S, refersto); then, and not 
till then, 1 shall think him worthy of further 
reply.. 1 may, however, think it necessary, if 
time will permit, (in order to warn the publi¢ 
aguinst the mischievous consequences that 
might result from the misapplication of what 
appears tv me an Important doctrine) to trou- 
bie either you, or my publishers, with a more 
‘particular outline of that system of musical 
‘or cadential proportion, wnich 1 have found 
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