1806.] 
entered into the’ books of the fociety, and 
afterwards publifhed in fuch manner as the 
fociety may direét. 
Should any of the friends of fcience in 
TnvernefS, Banff, Peterhead, or other 
places, be dehfous of eftablifhing fimilar 
infti:utions, we will om oft chearfully fur- 
nifh them with a copy of our plan and re- 
gulations. 
We have a fincere with to fee every en- 
couragement given to undertakings fo 
laudable and beneficial, and have with 
this view made the prefent communication, 
to give publicity to ours, through the me- 
dium of your widely-circu: NifeH and in- 
fiructive Magazine. 
Iam, Sir, yours, &c., 
ALEX. CromBie, Prefes. 
Aberdeen, Fanuary 2, 12806. 
P. S. Iwould wihh to be informed, through 
the medium of your valuable Mifcellany, if 
the Society for Scientific Information was 
ever eftabliihed 5 if it was, by publifhing the 
plan, the manner in which names are receiv- 
ed, &c., you would oblige many, and none 
more fo than, Yours, &c. Aes 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I SHOULD be much pleafed to fee, in a 
fuiure Number of your literary repo- 
fitory, an authentic Account of the Hente, 
and, if it can be obtained, a Lift of the 
Whtings, of the late Mr. John Haddle. 
ftone ip dg To my kna wledge he vas 
one of thofe few literary charaSers whofe 
abilities were exerted in the cau’e of mo- 
rality and religion ; and though I las 
he was the greater partof his hfe in ind 
gent circumitances, could nt be inc mike 
by any pecuniaiy corfileration to facrifice 
his opinion to his in‘eref either in politics 
or the caufe of virtue. ‘Thefe qualities 
will caufe his naine to be embalmed in the 
recolieétion of thofe »ho in his life-time 
were his more intimate acquaintaince, and 
fuch as rie admirers of rectitude of ccon- 
duét. But as his writings, though volu- 
minous, are feattered, and few of them 
have hig name prefix eds it would be ex- 
tremely gratifying to» me, and feveral of 
my friends, to know how ro colleét fuch of 
them as are yet extant. I have been in- 
formed he left two fons, promifing youths, 
and that one of them inherited a literary 
tafte. If ey are alive at this moment, I 
am furprifed they fhould not afford the 
public a better medium of judging of the 
mievits of their deceafed fatuer ‘han what 
are to be gleaned from the accounts that 
have been recently publifhed in a newfpa- 
per, and likewife in a periodical publica- 
The late Mr. Foba Huddleftone Wynne—Enugland. 205 
tion, which lately prete ended to furnith us 
with {ome anecdotes of this author, As 
a poet he was Kirt in great elteem ; and 
few have furpaffec 1 the harmony of his 
numbers, or the fab imity of his imagina- 
tion. His ** Hiltory of Ireland,” and 
«° Hiftory of America,” gained him re- 
pute, and certainly poflefs a confiderable 
fhare of merit; but his political. opinion 
Jeadine him to efpaufe the sdminifration 
of the late Lord North, rendered him eb- - 
noxious to the muitivude, and ecesfioned 
him many bitter enemies. If I mittake 
not, he alfo wrote a ‘© Hiftory of. Rome,” 
and was employed in the Narration of the 
Voy2ges and Travels of the celebrated Cir- 
cumnavigator Captain Cook. It is cer- 
tain that he was author or editor of many 
warks befides tho’e here alluded to, though 
many of them are anonymovs, or afcribec 
to other perfons 3 and thatthe “ Fables of 
Flowers,” and “* Emblems for Youth,*” 
mentioned by his biographers befere ale 
duded to, were cnly among his trivial per- 
formances. .Asa friend to vittue: relig gion, 
and truth, his name ought to be refcued 
from oblivion; and if any of your contri- 
butors can give a more accuraie account 
cf this hiftorian and poet than what has 
hitherto appeared, they would, I think, 
oblige the public by fo ane and like. 
wife confer a favour on, Sir, & 
Fesruary 24, 1806. ai eee 
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For the Monthly Magaziue. 
DOUBTS concerning the ufual ELYMOLO- 
GY of ihe WORD * ENGLAND.’ 
T is certain Conftantine, Maximus, 
and other Roman Generals, draughted 
from this country the flower of their 
troops. Atthe Court of Conftantinople, 
Britons, and Britifh psfterity, had ferved 
for ages as life-guards to the Emperors, 
They were eminently truited, and were 
called Varangs, or baitle-axe men. The 
ufe of the battle-axe was indeed common to 
all the Northern psople 5; it was their 
principal weapon. They retained at that 
Court the Englith language. Anna Com- 
nena, the daughter of the Emperor Alext- 
us, {peaking of thele battle-axe men, ‘or 
Britith lite-guards, thus defcribes them : 
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