1€07.] 
duce them to come and eat it, he builds 
x new town, that they may be ready upon 
the ipot, “ Wherever a number of inha- 
bitauts are: collected together,” fays the 
patriotic baronet, “ they become a mar- 
ket for the agricultural productions of 
the neighbourhoed, which, of courfe, in- 
creales the demand.” From this confi- 
deration he was induced to build the new 
town of Thurfo on his own ettate,“which 
he fays, ‘‘ on account of the cheapneis of 
provilions,” added to certain “‘ other con- 
veniencies, mutt induce perfons of mo- 
derate incomes to fettle there.” In this 
inftance the ejected farmers were not in- 
jured, for the proprietor had occafion for 
all their fervices in his extenfive inprove- 
nents, and, to attach them to his employ, 
built each family a cottage, to which he 
annexed a garden ‘and two Scotch acres 
of land. The increafe of agricultural 
produce gave {pirit to the general im- 
provements, and the confequence was, 
that employment was found fora great 
number of other labourers, who were in- 
vited to come and people the new colony. 
Whether the inhabitants of this fettle- 
ment be atfluent, or indigent, I do not 
know ; but I will venture to aflirm, that 
if there be the flighteft tendency to pau- 
periim among them, it does not refult 
from the engrotiment of the farm. Whilft, 
however, I ditter with “ Common Senfe,” 
as to the caufe of the evil, 1 am painfully 
obliged to acknowledge at once its ex- 
ittence and its magnitude ; and I wifh I 
did not at the fame time fee reafon to 
fear, that it will rather increafe than di- 
munith, unlefs we take a much more en-. 
larged view, than any perfons feem, at 
prefent, difpofed to take of the fubject. 
This paper is already too long to ware. 
rant my going into my own opinions 
upon the evil; yet I fhould not be dealing 
fairly by your correfpondent, if I were to 
content myfelf with merely contradi¢ting 
him. Tt is an affair in which we are all 
interefted, and the poorer we are, the 
greater our intereft is. Every degree of 
franknefs fhould theretore be encouraged 
that has a tendency to dillipate the con- 
fulion, in which difcufions upon the pau- 
per fyftem have hitherto been involved. 
Should this introduétion to the fubject 
meet a favourable reception, I will ina 
future paper endeavour to prove, that’ 
though the vices of the people, and the 
injudictous arrangements of government, 
both inftrumentally tend to create a great 
number of paupers, the true caufe as 
well of the pauperifm complained of, as 
@f the fyftem by which its evils are at- 
Mr. Payne and Mr. Salmon, on Prepofitions. 
335 
tempted to be palliated, is to be found in 
a fundaunental error in the order of fo« 
ciety, which makes every ftep that the 
country advances im improvement and 
plenty, injurious to the iabourer, in exact 
proportion as it is advantageous to the 
other clatles of the community. 
April 4, 1807. Your’s, &c. 
Office of Tranquillity, Joun Bone, > 
Allion-jireet, Blackjriar’s Bridge. 
; EE 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I the paper communicated by me in 
the laft Monthly Magazine, page 236, 
under the title of *¢ Prepojiiions are mere- 
ly ufed to avoid queftions likely to be put 
Sor the fake of obtaining circumflantial 
Jiatements,” (and which is only a fimall 
part of a very interefting corref{pondence,' 
on the mechanifm of language, with 
which I have been favoured by the ay- 
thor of the “ Evenings of Southill,”) 
there is an important owiffion, occafioned 
probably, by hafte in tranferibing, which 
Iam very defirous fhould be fuppled as 
{oon as poffible. 
The purport of that paper, is to ex 
plain, how the prepoiition by, placed be- 
fore any of the reflective pronouns, as 
by myfelf, is ufed to denote erclufion, in 
regard to all other individuals not men- 
tioned, and that it may fometimes not 
only denote exrclufion, but ttand for near: 
thus, by myjelf, may mean near myfelf. 
The tormer of thefe fignifications 1s fully 
explained in the paper in queftion, but 
the latter is not even alluded to, owing to 
the omitfion of the following paragraph: 
“ The reader of the ‘ Evenings of 
Southill’ is te recollect that I only pro- 
felled to inveftigate every one of the ex- 
amples which Dr. Johnfon adduced to 
his feveral divilions of by. I have, how- 
ever, in the pages of the inveitigation, 
introduced here and there fome examples 
“on ecircumi{tances which the Doctor had 
not nuticed. The divifion 6 (Evenings of 
Southill, p.80) and the examples adduced, 
would futiiciently {hew, that the fort of 
by, therein elucidated, might introduce a 
pronoun of the clafs, generally confidered 
as reflective, fuch asmyfelf, ourfclves, &e. 
as well as any other pronoun or any noun: 
but,.as not one of the paflages, quoted, 
prefents any of thofe pronouns generally 
called reflective, I am going to difcufls an 
example of the kind. Let us confider 
this combination of words, ‘Come and 
fit by myfelf,” with an emphafis upon my- 
Jelf, inftead of, “Come and fit by me,” 
with an emphafis upon me.” 1 fhall cone 
Uu2 fider 
