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uniting not with thofe to which they are 
applied. 
Many eminently ufeful words will be 
ranfomed or retrieved; as to /elute, to de- 
mulce, defpoliation, irreftrainable, joyoufly, 
&c, Many that are barbarous, expelled ; 
as to piftol, to hound, to pad, to fifoify, &c. 
Many French words, as éczarre, canaille, 
hauteur, fracas, route, a-propos, trait, 
cap-a-pie, will find no admiffion ; but 
terms in architeéture, drefs, and fortifica- 
tion, though purely French, will be re- 
tained as naturalized, 
Many of the antique words of Chaucer 
will be admitted, chiefly thofe only that 
Spenfer and Milton have incorporated. 
Words borrowed of antiquity (as Ben Jon- 
fon fomewhere remarks,) lend majetty to 
ftyle ; they have the authority of years ; 
and out of their intermiffion do win to 
themifelves a kind of grace like newnefs. 
But I do not allude to fuch words as ob- 
ambulation, effigiate, ingannation, deleni-. 
fical, claudicate, collineation, and two 
thoufand more of the fame brood that ap- 
pear in the Doétor’s Ditionary, that have 
neither the prefcription of any age, nor of 
any author, nor of any language. 
A wide margin is left in the rough 
draught for the hints, the notes, and the 
emendations of the critic, the linguift, and 
the verbal colleétor ; which they are in- 
vited to return monthly to Mr. Phillips, 
in Bridge-ftreet, or in a letter to me in 
London, After the comments are com- 
bined, arranged, and methodized, every 
fub{criber will be entitled to an emended 
edition gratis ; and the contributor of any 
confiftent, ftrong, or well-urged obferva- 
tion, fhail have his name and place of 
abode annexed to the criticif{m or note on 
any word that he may tranfmit. 
I cannot treat my project more in de- 
tail in the limits of a Magazine. If the 
Di&tionary which I have been fo long affi- 
duoufly employed about has merit, I know 
my labour will be repaid by the generous 
attachment and potent fuccour of the pub- 
lic. Should it be disfavourably received, 
I fhall fupport- my difappointment with 
becoming refignation, and difcontinue its 
publication. In perfevering againf a ge- 
neral concurrent difcouragement, Jittle 
progrefs can be made, and defeat at laft 
inevitable, 
Any comments on this fummary pro- 
fpectus will be welcome to me through the 
channel of your highly valuable Maga- 
zine. I am, Sir, your’s, &c., 
Groton Houfe, Joun PYTCHES. 
Suffolk, 17th May, 1806, 
Letters from Switzerland, 
[June 1, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
LETTERS o” the PRESENT STATE of 
SWITRERLAND, addreffed by @ TRA- 
VELLER im that COUNTRY to hi, 
FRIEND 74 LONDON. 
Bafle, May 17, 1805. 
DEAR FRIEND, 
| | OW ftrongly do the images of the 
paft crowd on my recolleétion as I 
approach this once-heavenly land of liber- 
ty and independence! I am anxious to 
revifit thofe beauties of nature which af- 
forded me once fo much enjoyment ; al- 
though Iam fatisfied that my pains will 
be greater than my paft pleafures. I pro- 
mifed to communicate to you my feelings 
and obfervations ; and fhall derive no 
{mall relief from unburthening myfelf, 
and by retracing with you the fteps which 
I may tread in this charming country. 
On my arrival at Bafle I direéted my 
courfe towards the inn of the Three 
Kings, which on my former vifit here was 
the ufual place of refort for travellers. 
The appearance of this houfe had nothing 
to recommend it, being little more than a 
cottage, in a remote corner of the place ; 
but the back-rooms afforded a delightful 
profpeét of the Rhine, of the bridge con- 
necting Little and Great Bafle, and of 
the ramparts of Hunningen. It claimed 
alfo the honour of antiquity, and the ftill 
higher honour of having afforded enter- 
tainment to three kings. According to 
tradition a Roman, Burgundian, and 
Hungarian king Jodged here together ; 
from which circumftance it derived its an- | 
cient ign. As this was rather a recom- 
mendatien than otherwife to me from my 
old-fafhioned ideas, you will eafily con- 
ceive how I was ftartled on feeing the 
three monarchs divefted of their crowns 
and fceptres, and converted into plain ci- 
tizens ! Iwas at no lofs to guefs the 
caufe of the change; but was afterwards 
informed that the landlord of the inn, feiz- 
ed with the revolutionary mania which 
fcourged the Swifs, in common with 
their French neighbours, had ftripped his 
fizn of its badges of royalty, and hum- 
bied it to the ideas of liberty and equa- 
lity. 
Not willing to take up my abode with. 
this republican gentleman, I was direéted 
to another houfe called the Stork, the 
landlord of which was an undegenerated 
Swifs ; and he accordingly received en- 
aes from all perfons of the fame 
cialis. i 
This trifling anecdote of the inn-keeper 
will 
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