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‘Vo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
ERCEIVING in a Magazine of 
your’s sometime back, that one of 
“your correspondents wished to know of 
an effectual test for the discovery of sul- 
phuric acid in vinegar; I would re- 
commend the acetate of barytes of the 
new nomenclature, as the most delicate 
test possible, for a copious insoluble 
precipitate iumediately falls down, upon 
adding a small quantity of the above 
compound. A. RB. B. 
Oxford, Nov. 1810. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING of late been accustomed 
to instruct a few of my friends’ 
‘children in the usual branches of edu- 
cation necessary to qualify them for trade 
or commerce, | take the liberty of mak- 
ing the following enquiries through the 
medium of your useful miscellany, on a 
subject of the highest importance to se- 
ciety and the rising generation, and 
worthy the particular attention ef every 
schoolmaster in the kingdom. Several 
of tke pupils mow under my care, have 
smpediments in their speech, yet I con- 
ceive they have no defect in the organs 
of speech; but that threugh neglect. and 
3H habit, they do not pronounce the pro- 
per sounds of various letters in our lan- 
guage, but substitute other sounds in 
their places, viz, 
T for S, in same, yes; iss pronounced tame, 
yet, i. 
TZ for C soft, in lace, face, cite; pronounced 
late, fate, tite. 
TJ for C hard, in cake, came, acts; pronounced 
tate, taimz, ats. 
T for X, in axe, tax, flax; pronounced ar, 
tat, fiat. ‘ 
D for G, in God, good, beg 3 pronounced 
dod, dood, bed. 
D for J,in —* joy 3 pronounced 
, . doin, dames, doy. 
D for Z, in zeal, maze, buz3; pronounced 
_ deal, made, bud. 
F for Th, in thro’, three, throng; pronounced 
fro’, free, frong. 
Y for L, inlay, line, let; pronounced yay, 
yine, yet. 
¥ fer R, in rise, rain, rate ; pronounced yise; 
aT Jain, pate. 
W for V, in vine, live, very; pronounced 
4 awine, lit, wery. 
T could like to know why some parents 
object to have their children’s impedi- 
ments removed by the assistance of art? 
And also, what are the most expeditious 
and effectual methods whereby lingual de- 
Lyceum of Ancient Literature.—No. XX XIII. [Dec. !, 
fects may be removed? Some suppose that 
nature will, unaided, find a remedy. 
Perhaps Mr. Thelwall will favour the 
public with some observations on this 
subject, as he has occasionally given in 
your miscellany striking proofs of his 
abilities in the origin of orgauic defects. 
Sheffield, Jacos Wood. 
Nov. 9, 1810. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
LYCZUM OF ANCIENT LITERA- 
TURE.—No. XXXIIL 
| PROPERTIUS« 
if fers interesting poet was the con- 
temporary of Catullus, and follows 
him closely both in merit and fame. 
He was born in that part of Umbria 
which borders nearest upon Etruria ; 
this is sufficiently attested by his elegies 5 
but to which of the towns of Umbria we 
are to attribute his birth, is not so clear. 
After all the controversies and discor- 
dant opinions of his numerous biogra- 
phers and commentators, the point is 
‘still doubtful and undecided. ‘The sub- 
ject is too intricate, and perhaps of too 
little moment, to make it necessary for 
us to enter into its discussion. The 
nomen and cognemen of Aurelius, prove 
the high respectability of bis. birth. 
The Aurelian family at Rome was once 
plebeian, if we look back to that period 
when Romulus, and some other Roman 
kings, distinguished the patricians from 
the rest of the people. But it was after- 
wards ennobled by many curule magis- 
trates, Historians have divided this fa- 
mily into the three branches of the 
Cotte, the Orestes, and the Scaurz; 
each of which produced characters who 
held, and honourably maintained, the 
first dignities of the republic. These 
senatorial families, however, have little 
to do with our Propertius, who was an 
enfranchised knight. He never acquired 
any honours, nor does he appear to have 
courted them. He was the sport of © 
fortune,* as he tells his patron Tallus, 
To Cyuthiat he says, that he hoaste no 
noble blood, no triumphs of his arices- 
tors. Yet we are not to conclude from 
hence that his family was obscure, or 
his rank in life low and mean. We may 
conjecture that both were respectable, — 
without adopting the idea of Servius,t 
that his race was so illustrious that he 
* Me sine, quem semper voluit Fortuna 
jacere, Scc.—Eleg. G. lib. 1. 
+ Eleg. 19. lib. 2. 
z Serv. in Virgil, fEn. 7. v0 697. 
could 
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