1807. ] 
the fuke of obtaining circumfiantial fiate- 
ments’. 
Is not the object of every part of {peech 
the fame as this? Does fuch an othce 
belong exclutively to prepolitions? Does 
it not belong, in the fame degree, and in 
the fame way, to the only effential parts 
of a fentence, the fubject and atlirma~ 
tion, the noun and verb; and to the 
object, whether noun, pronoun, or any 
thing elle? When I fay fpontaneoutly, 
*“T love her’, does. not £preyent, the 
queftion’s being aiked, ‘* Who loves her”; 
does not prevent the queltion, 
“What do V’; and does not her prevent 
wking “ Whom do i love’? In the fame 
way it certaiily 1s, and in no other, that 
prepofitions avoid queftions and give their 
information; for, if I fay “ I went with 
John”, | communicate in the fame way 
lave 
two circumitances, aud the’ meaning is. 
“TI went—join John’; or, if, giving a 
pallive form, to the preceding example, 
I fay, “‘ She is loved by me”, does by me, 
a prepofition and pronoun, exprefs any 
relation different from that which, in the 
active form, is denoted by J the fimple 
pronoun? In the writer’s own example, 
“¢ Darius was vanquifhed by Alexander”, 
does by Alexander expres a different 
relation from that which is expreffed by 
the mere noun or name in “ Alexander 
vanquifhed Darius”. Indeed, if Mr. 
Tooke’s theory be true, according to 
which prepofitions are chiefly nouns and 
verbs, is it pollible that they can have 
any other effential nature than that 
which they poffefs as nouns and verbs? 
It is true, that, when I fay “ I went”, I 
may abjtain, if I pleafe, from adding’ 
more, and the reafon is, that “ I went”, 
being a complete affirmation, conftitutes 
a complete fentence. The other part is 
merely fubfidiary, or an adjunct: to the 
afirmation, and [I may either mention 
it at once, to prevent a queftion, or, af- 
terwards, in anfwer to a queition. But 
this cireamftance is merely accidental 
or optional, and nowife conne¢ted with 
any peculiarity in the nature or fervice 
of prepolitions; for, in the fame manner, 
it 1s optional to me either to declare or 
to fupprefs, with or without a queftion, 
the whole of the information contained 
in the affirmation itfelf, “ I went”, The 
truth, 1 believe, is, that the intention of 
all language is to communicate thought; 
that, for this end, only two parts of 
{peech are indifpenfably neceffary ; and 
that a// the parts, whether reduced to 
two, or diftributed, for the fake of con- 
Tour in the Ifle of Wight. 
B45 
venience, into ten, contribute alike to 
this purpofe.. Whether the information 
communicated be given fpontaneoutly, 
or to anticipate or prevent queltions, or’ 
in anfwer to previous queltions, are cir= 
umiftances merely accidental or optional, 
and nowife connected with tbe intriniic 
nature either of the effential or the con- 
venient parts of oral or of written lan- 
ouage. 
Thefe few remarks refer merely to 
the obfervations of Mr, Payne, and not 
to Mr. Salmon’s works, either publifhed, 
or unpublifhed, which, as a whole, may 
not be liable to that kind of er parte 
avimadverfion, to which’ they are ex~ 
pofed, with, I‘am confidént, no fuch illi- 
beral intention, by being laid before the. 
public in partial or imperfeét extracis, 
Crouch-end, Your's, &ci. 
April 4, 1807, J. GRANT. 
—<6 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S the Ile of Wight has of late ex- 
cited confiderable attention, fome 
of your readers who have no opportu- 
nity of vifiting that delightful fpot, or of 
reading elaborate defcriptions of it, may 
be amufed by the following imperfect 
fketch. Should you deem it worthy a 
place in your Mifcellany, it is very much 
at your fervice. 
Leicefier. 
I could rove 
At morn, at noon, at eve, by lunar ray, 
In each returning feafon, through ‘* yon ifle”® 
——_—_—- ————— Could vifit every dell, 
Each hill, each breezy lawn, each wandering 
brook, 
And bid the world admire; and when at laft 
The fong were clofed, each magic fpot again 
Could feek, and tell again of all its charms. 
GIsBORNE. 
TO the inhabitant of an inland coun- 
ty, who has been little accuitomed to 
marine excurfions, failing down the 
Southampton river affords new, varied, 
and highly interefting enjoyment. The 
feenery on the borders of this expantive 
branch of the fea, is uncommonly rich 
and diverlified. The country is well 
wooded, agreeably irregular, aud highly 
cultivated. Mantions of various orders 
give cheerfulnefs to the landfcape view, 
and heighten the intereft of the woods 
with which they are ornamented. Netly 
Abbey rifes from its fhaded ‘vale with fo- 
[emn grandeur. The majeftic woods 
with which it is furrounded, open fuffi- 
ciently 
