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Pipkin, Pepin-King, King Pepin.-The greatest authorities are on our fide to prove that every word in modern languages must have a root; and that of those in ancient languages, which are generally fuppofed to be radical, many owe their origin to caufes not immediately obvious. In the discovery of the fecret con-. nexion which exifts between words of fimilar founds but widely different fignifications, in compelling them. by gentle conceffions of each other's meaning to unite, confifts the perfection of etymology.

To the learned Junius the firft praife is due for his painful researches in this branch of philology. The moft difficult words were traced by him to fources from whence the indolent lexicographer could never have fufpected they could have proceeded. Thus the verb to moan is derived by him from μovos (alone) becaufc, he obferves, grief naturally loves to be alone; thus the colloquial fynonime for fleep, a nap, is made to flow from xyepas (darkness) because darkness commonly induces fleep. As Junius is a book not always at hand, fuch of your readers, as are defirous of improving themselves in the art of making derivations, may find thefe, and many more inftances, in the preface to Johnfon's Dictionary.

Lord Coke fhould not be omitted by him who has the cause of etymology at heart. Whatever his Lordfhip might be in morality, he was certainly in grammatical pursuits, a Stoick; fince it is to this fect, if we may believe Heineccius, that we are to attribute the perfection of the fcience. Money, Coke fays, is derived from moneo to admonish, because it admonifheth its poffeffor to make a good ufe of it. Its voice I am afraid, like that of confcience, is very low and weak. Nummus, one of the many Latin names for money, is derived from voxos (law); because it circulates by an inftitution of pofitive fociety not by any law of nature. Quære, if directly the reverfe were the cafe, whether the name would not then fuit it as well; as it would then

then circulate by a law of nature? A great number of fimilar inftances are to be found in the First Institute.

Sanctioned by fuch names as Junius and Coke, I have contributed my feeble efforts to the ftock of deri-vative knowledge. I have discovered that Vale and Valley proceed from the Latin Vale (adieu) because we bid adieu to the valley when we get to the top of the hill. Something very like this occurs in the grammars in common ufe at schools, where verfe is faid to be the child of vertere (to turn); because when we come to the end of one verfe we turn our eyes to the beginning of the next. As I intend to publish my difcoveries in fome mode that shall be productive, I cannot confiftently with my intereft communicate any more of my improvements. Suffice it to fay that no word is to be inferted in my dictionary which has not a copious explanation, and a long chain of reasoning; which, like that in Parkhurft's Hebrew Lexicon, will prove that men were chymifts, philofophers, legislators, and divines, before they turned their thoughts to the invention of a language.

MOMUS CRITICORUM.

P. S. Does Piccadilly come from Peccadello; being confidered at the time of its foundation fo remote from the main part of London, as to argue a little errour in the builder? If not, can any of your correfpondents tell me its origin?-[St. James's Chron.] ·

If the following warm and animating Ode was not written near the time to which it applies, it is one of the most faithful imitations of the fimple and beautiful style of the Scottish bards we ever read, and we know but of one living poet to whom to afcribe it.

BRUCE'S ADDRESS.

TO HIS TROOPS, AT THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN,
Scene, LEWIS GARDEN.

COTS, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,

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Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,

Welcome to your gory bed,

Or to glorious victorie!

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Now's the day, and now's the hour!
See the front o'battle lour!

See approach proud Edward's pow'r !
Edward, chains and flaverie!
Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha fae bafe as be a flave?

Traitor! coward! turn, and flie!
Wha for Scotland's King and Law,
Freedom's fword will ftrongly draw,
Freeman ftand, or Freeman fa!
Caledonian! on wi' me!

By Oppreffion's woes and pains!
By your fons in fervile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins-
But they fhall-they SHALL be free!

Lay the proud ufurpers low;

Tyrants fall in every foe;

Liberty's in every blow!

Forward let us go or die!

SUPPLEMENT TO THE TOBAGO GAZETTE*.

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* This article was intended to ridicule the pompous display in the London Gazette of paltry articles captured---muskets withcut locks, locks without mufkets, linftocks, &c. which certainly were not worth the paper on which they were printed.

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Magpie without a cage
Raven with one leg

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ADDRESSED TO PERSECUTORS.

ASCRIBED TO DR. FRANKLIN.

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ND it came to pass, after these things, that Abraham fat in the door of his tent, about the going down of the fun.

And behold a man bent with age, coming from the way of the wilderness, leaning on a staff.

And Abraham arose, and met him, and faid unto him, Turn in I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night; and thou fhalt arife early in the morning, and go on thy way.

And the man faid, Nay; for I will. abide under this

tree.

But Abraham preffed him greatly: fo he turned, and they went into the tent: and Abraham baked unleavened bread, and they did eat.

And when Abraham faw that the man bleffed not God, he faid unto him, Wherefore doft thou not worship the Moft High God, Creator of heaven and earth?

And the man anfwered and faid, I do not worship thy God, neither do I call upon his name; for I have made to myself a God, which abideth always in my house, and provideth me with all things.

And Abraham's zeal was kindled against the man, and he arofe, and fell upon him, and drove him forth with blows into the wilderness.

And God called upon Abraham, faying, Abraham, where is the stranger?

And Abraham anfwered and faid, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name: therefore have I driven him out from before my face into the wilderness.

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