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“* Thefe carry their hattle-axes flung 
ever their fhoulders ; and have from their 
anceftcrs received, as a facred depofit and 
inheritance, the trutt of the Emperor's 
lite, as body-guard. Vhat traditional 
Toyalty of theirs they have preferved un- 
corrupt, and will not bear fo much as the 
leaft mention of treafon.” 
A: the Emperor’s table, (acAuxpons€e- 
ot Ob Bagaylos nelle Ty acilesay yauocay 
‘avlov, i508 IyluAnvise Tas werexers avluy 
euyxesiles elugroy amoreazvlecs. Cod. p. 90.) 
s¢ They cry Leng Life in their own coun- 
try language, (viz., in the Exgli/b man- 
ner.) -brandifhing their battle-axes, and 
making a clath of arms.” 
Again, —Eu® Oo est treTe BPETTA- 
NIKON Baoidevss “Paparoy dvAcvoy ANE- 
KA@EN, — (Cinnamus, |. i., p. 4.)— 
«¢ Thefe men were Britons from time tm- 
memorial in the fervice of the Roman Em. 
perors.”” 
Other Greek authors, of the lower em- 
pire, Briennius Cafar, Nicetas Chroniata, 
&c., atteft the fame. Pachymeres efpe- 
cially mentions, Egens <& EylAiwov, Harry, 
(for Henry,) one ot the Exglifh. 
Thefe hiftcrical teftimonies prove pretty 
clearly that the perfons here referred to 
(Britons,) were life-guards at the Gre- 
‘cian Court confiderably pricr to the Saxon 
revolution ; (the avexaev, or * anciently,” 
of Cinnamus muft refer to a more remote 
periad ;) while the words Eyfawzy, * En- 
glifh,’ TylAnviests ‘in the Englifh manner,* 
are uled by the Greck writers fo familiarly 
as to preve that the Britens were then cur- 
rently known by the fpecific diltinétion of 
Englith. If fo, the word Exgland is very 
improperly derived from the Anglo Saxoas, 
‘a people who, whether they came from the 
deferss of Jutland, Wefiphalia, Pomera- 
aia, or Denmark, Camden with all his di- 
Jigence of inquiry could never determine. 
In fhort, we mutt look for the etymology 
of the word ¢ Engiand’ from another 
fource than the Anglo-Saxons. But from 
what fource? A. WILLIAMS. 
New Malton, Feb. 17, 1806. 
———_=- ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OME obfervations haying appeared in 
a late Number cf your work, by Mr. 
Bewick of Newcaftle, refpecting an Ac. 
count of a Mr. Johnfon cf Newcafltle, 
publifhed by Mr. Pinkerton of Londen, 
which was faid to have come from the 
Mefirs. Morifon of Perth, I conceive it 
incumbent on me fimply to ftate,—That 
Mr. Jchnfon, a very ingenious and premil- 
Mr. Fobnfon of Neweaftle.— Literary Remarks. 
[May }, 
ing young artift from Newcafile, was em- 
ployed by me to make copies of paintings 
in Taymouth Cafile, for Mr. Pinkerton. 
While engaged in this work, this intereft- 
ing youth died, and that under circum- 
ftances peculiarly affetinog. Alter his 
death, Mr. Pinkerton, anxious to do as 
much public juftice to his memory, as he 
had previoufly privately remunerated his 
friends, applied to me to procure fome ac- 
count of him for publication, Equally a 
franger to his hiftory as Mr. Pinkerton, 
T applied to fome of his acquaintances in 
his native town; and their communica- 
tions [tranimitted Mr. P. If in thefe 
there fhould be any miftake as to his em. 
ployment while apprentice to Mr. Bewick, 
I can only fay I have no particular accefs 
to know ; nor do I fuppofe that to moft 
of your readers it will appear of any im- 
portance. If I have been the undefign- 
ing vehicle of any incorrect information to 
the world, which Mr. Bewick canfiders as 
of profeffional injury to him, I fincerely 
regret it. I have no intereft in extolling 
Mr. Johnfon’s abilities at the expence of 
Mr. Bewick, [ am, Sir, &c., 
JaMEs Morison. 
Perth, Dec. 17, 1805. 
ae per 
Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIRy 
F the poem of “ Univerfal Beauty,” 
mentioned by your Correfpondent 
S. &., fome account may be acceptable to 
your readers. It was written by Henry 
Brooke, Efq., author of Guftavus Vafa, 
Farmer’s Letters, &c., &c. After having 
been fubmitted, I believe, to the revifion, 
orat leaft the perufal, of Pope, it was pub- 
lithed in 1735, and again in 1736. It 
appeared again in an edition of the au- 
thor’s Works which was publifhed by J. 
Sewell, Cornhill, London, in1789. This 
edit'on was revifed, corrected, and confi- 
derably augmented, by the author’s 
daughter, by whom it was re-pubiifhed in 
1792, with a very elegant and feeling 
«* Account of Henry Brooke, Elfq.” To 
this amiable and very ingenious young 
lady (who was in every refpe&t worthy of 
her father,) the public is indebted for the 
‘© Reliques of Irifth Poetry,” a work 
which reflegis honour on Ireland, and 
ferves to jutify the obfervation of Spen- 
fer, that the fongs of the Irith bards ¢* fa. 
voured of {weet wit and good invention.” 
It appeais from the letter of your Cor- 
refpondent, that a tranflation of the ‘*Con- 
nubia Florum’’ is projected. Of the au- 
thor of this work little I believe is known, 
I think. 
