Remarks on Pinkerton's "Differtation on the Gothis," c. 307

The

Senigaglia. Calliopolis, in the Gulph of Tarentum, is changed to Gallipoli; as are two other cities of the fame name, one in Sicily, and the other on the Thracian Cherfonefe. Calagurris (Loare), on the Ebruo, was the capital of the Valcones, who, after palling the Pyrenees, gave their name to a pro. vince of Gall, which is ftill recognifed under that of Gascoyne. There was a Gallicum in Spain, whofe name is loft in that of Cuera, on the Gallego; and another in Macedon. now Callico. Forum Gallicorum is now Caftel Franco; and Calatia is Gaifa, near Caferta. Calagaris, Calegum, and Calgaria, in Gaul, are changed into Cazeres, Chailli, and Cadieres; and on the fite of Calcaria, in Britain, ftands the English town of Tadcafter, Calle in Lufitania affumed, in the middle ages, the name of Porto, and afterwards, in conjunction with it, gave the defignation of Portugal to a kingdom. I am ignorant what names the little iflands of Gaulos, one by Malta, and one by Crete, have taken; but the Calaurie Infulæ are called, by the French The geographers, les des Corfairs. and of Calymnu, one of the Sporades, retains its ancient name. Of rivers, are the Calycadnus in Cilicia, Calbis in Caria, Galefus, now Galejo, in Italy; and of mountains is Calpe in Spain, the Co. lum of Hercules, on which is fituated the modern fortress of Gibraltar. And, from all the examples of the custom of thefe univerfal fettlers, I would infer, that the country of Gallica, on the Northern frontier of Palestine, owes its name to them. When Salmanazar caried off the original inhabitants of this region, he fupplied their place with a colony of firangers from his own domi. nions; and, as they gave its prefent name to the territory, it is reafonable to believe that they were a nation of Galls who had fettled fomewhere in the vaft empire of Allyria. On the fide of Paleftine, next to Arabia Petræa, is a diftrict diftinguished by the name of Galaaduis, from a mountain called Galaa :. And the country of Batanæa (a conqueft of the fiaelites under Og, king of Bafan) is feparated from Lake Genazereth by a narrow margin of land, called Gaulonitis, from Gauion, a strong place at the Southern entrance.

* That is, Gall-wh. Some may chufe to derive the firit word from A, though there is no other relation between the two All the accidental militude of found.

Thefe examples I do not offer with much confidence; but I hope, from the previous ones, an argument is eafily deducible to prove all that I have affirmed in the premises.

Before I conclude, Mr. Urban, I would fain gratify your readers with the etymology of the term which I have made the fubject of this differtation, but must confefs my inability. The affumed or furnames of a people are riore easily traced than the generic word, and are often mistaken for it. I proceed to a remarkable example. The Romans called more than one Gallic race by the name of Cimbri, and the peninfula of Jutland, from which Galls were doubtlefs expelled, Cimbrica Cherfonefus. The word is the Roman orthography for Cymmar, which is the more commen and familiar term by which the Welsh (as we call them) defignate themfelves at this day, as they do their language by that of Cymraig. The words of this root may be thus traced and tranflated : cymrod, concordia, cymmar, fodalis, quali comrade (a word fill retained in the French, and thence adopted into our language), not from their going in troops, as our author fuppoles, but to diftingui themfelves from foreigners, deriving the name of their nation from cymmeryd, capere, accipere; and thus come cymmeryd, dignitas, æftimatio; mmeradwy, æltimarus, &c.

Mr. Pinkerton notes thefe etymolɔgies without remarking their analogy. Nor does he obferve that the names of his friends, the Gets and Goths, or, as the Romans called them, Get and Gothi*, are derived alfo from their way of life, and fignify the fame thing. And yet, what is more obvious than that they come from the Teutonic ve.b Jezzan, ger, got, gotten, and denote a people who profefs to get territory by expulfion of the natives. In the days of violence and adventure, acquifition fignified right, and, in the language of our common-law, the terms conqueror and founder are fynonimous. Perhaps it would not pleale Mr. Pinkerton to learn that Scythian, which he venerates

*Polybius tells us of another people, whofe name was as analagous to the name of thefe as their way of life to theirs: "They fent ambaffadors alfo to the Gauls who lived on the Alps and along the Rhone; thele were called Gejat, because their cuftom was to ferve in armies for a certain hire; for this is what the name imports." Hampton's Polyb. Gen. Hift. b. II. ch. 2.

In conformity to this principle of diftinguishing themfelves by an appellation fignificant of their habits or accidental qualties, the Gothic tribe which prevailed over Gaul at the diffolution of the Roman empire, affumed the glorious diftin&ion of Franks, or freemen; and bestowed the opprobrious name of Scla

Mr. URBAN, Woodbridge, April 2. You YOU receive drawingst of a very ca pital filver medal in the poffeffion of the Rev. Mr. Carthew. The legend:

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vones, or flaves, on another nation, CVRA DOMI VIVAX CONCORDIA. which feized the provinces of the lower Danube. The terms are ftill retained by the pofterity of each, though any caufe of reproach on one fide, or envy on the other, has long fince been destroyed.

it was this principle that induced the people of the Lower Rhine, in a more remote age, to call themselves Germans, or, as the Romans termed them, Germani, that is, guerre man, quafi warrior, and which we fill continue to them. And thus, amidst the confusion of nations which came down upon the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries, thofe who occupied the countries of the Upper Rhine, Suabia, and Alface, took the name of Alemans or Almani, quali men of all tribes. which is full retained by the French as a defignation for the whole Teutonic people, with as little propriety as we obferve in extending to them the term of Germans.

The truth is, that the generic name of all the nations inhabiting the regions beyond the Rhine and Alps, and peaking the fame language, is neither Germans, Allemans, Scythians, Gets, nor Goths, but Teichers, and of their Country Teichland. The former word the Romans, according to their custom, foftened into Teutones; but it is fill retained by us in the term Durch, which we bettow peculiarly on the Batavian provinces.

Thus, Sir, I have endeavoured by feveral inductions (perhaps too many for the patience of the reader) to difcover truth, as well as to detect the errors of a work in which the author's

judgement feems as much impeded by crudition as perverted by a very whim fical modification of ill humour. If I have not observed the accuracy of logi cal metfod, i have cleaped the abfurdi

Mr. Barrington, in his Obfervations on Ancient Statutes, has these words, fol. 293, note: "I have been informed that, when a man and his wife have been married in Germany fifty years, there is a fort of fecond marriage celebrated with the greatest festivity. As alfo, that in Holland, after a man and his wife have been married 25 years, there is a folemnity which is called a lver marriage; after 50, it is dignified with the nanie of a golden one.” above fully accounts for the occafion of striking this medal. Yours, &c. R. L. March 24.

Mr. URBAN,

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Example. "Chap. II. Part. II. The Germans were Scythæ. First grand argument from identity of language. This may be proved as follows. We have a venerable monument of the Scythic or Gothic language, in the Gospels tranflated by Ulphias, buhop of the Goths in Mafia, in the year 367. Another fragment, containing part of the Epiftle to the Romans, has been lately difcovered in the library of Wolfenbuttle; and other fragments of the Gothic language have alfo been found, for which fee Mr. Lye's notes to his edition of the Gothic Gospels.All thefe remains, as being Gothic, are Scy,

thic: for it has been incontestably proven, that Goths and Scythæ are fynonimous terms. for the fame people." Pinkerton.

+ See plate II. fig. 1.-For the other fi gures in that plate, fee p. 3:1.

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A Clerical Error reprehended.-Irish Bishops transplanted. 309

fore it is that I address you on a matter of ferious importance.

dreffed leaves the church with a deter-
mined refolution to revenge himself on
the parfon the firft opportunity, and to
ridicule him on every occafion; and
here is the foundation fixed of a lafting
enmity betwixt the clergyman and the
parishioner.

I do not mean, by any thing I have
faid, to infinuate that there is any im-
propriety in preachers endeavouring, in
general, to correct the vices of the age,
and the faults to which mankind are
fubject: lectures to this purpose are
highly laudable. My only intention is,
to declaim against offenfive and indecent
perfonalities, that are difgufting, una-
vailing, mean, and ludicrous; and to
observe, that perfons who only go to
hear divine fervice fhould previously di-
veft themfelves of all enmities, heart-
burnings, jealoufies, and refentments;
and, if this is to be expected from the
hearers, furely it is the least that can be
expected from the minifter.
Yours, &c.
ALKMOND.

Mr. URBAN,

Mar. 9.

S Bishop Prefton's request to be

A tranflated from Leighlin and Ferns

I do not lodge any complaint, Mr. Urban, against the fuperior clergy; they are all, or most of them, men too liberal-minded, too well-informed, and too well-acquainted with the world, to fall into a practice fo derogatory to the honour and intereft of the church, as is the one I have to reprehend. I am forry to obferve, that there are men among the inferior clergy, who, to gratify any pique they have chanced to imbibe against an individual of their parish, will compofe and preach a fermon purpofely for the fake of lafhing that parti cular perfon, applying to that one end all such words, maxims, and phrases of Scripture, as can poffibly be wrefted and turned to the point wherein the chaftifed object has offended. What can this be called, Sir, but malicious railing, couched in holy language? How little did the Sacred Historians and Apoftles imagine to what purposes their words and meanings would be perverted! To confider this extraordinary kind of oratory in a moral light; it is unfair to fall foul on an adversary in a place, and at a time, when he is reftrained by every law of decency and cuftom from defending and vindicating himself; and this may very justly be deemed a fpecies of cowardice peculiar to fome members of the church. On reflecting on fuch conduct feriously, one finds it replete with confequences of the most pernicious nature. preffions can exhortations to forbearance, meeknefs, benevolence, philanthropy, charity, humility, forgiveness, and Chriftian unity, make upon a congregation, that come from the mouth of a Preacher, who vents his fpleen, fpight, ill-nature, and refentments, in the pulpit? can fuch behaviour contribute towards fupporting the dignity of the clerical character, and the reverence due to the church? what force can the precepts of a man of this difpofition have his hearers? In regard to the upon orator himself, what fervice can these perfonal lectures do him? They can have no other effect than that of rendering him ridiculous and odious to his adverfary, and contemptible to his congregation. To conclude: the people, acquainted with the circumftances that have given rife to fuch a difcourfe are IV. 1395. Robert Waldby, from fhocked at the profanation of the pulpit Dublin to Clichetter. He attended the' and facred function; thole who are not, And the oration utterly incomprehenfi- Black Prince into foreign parts, and was ble; and the perfon to whom it was promoted to the fee of Aire in Gafcony,

What im

to St. David's has not been complied with by the Miniftry, who were, it feems, unwilling to make, or rather to revive, fuch a precedent; it may be an amufement to fome of your readers to be informed how many prelates have been removed from Ireland to England, and who was the laft to whom this indulgence was granted. I have therefore tranfmitted the underwritten lift, which, I am apt to believe, may be accurate as far as it goes, though poffibly not complete, from my not having an opportunity of confulting Ware, De Præfulibus

Hiberniæ.

1. 1323. John de Eglefcliff, a Dominican triar, irom Connor to Landaff, by Papal bull. Je was ejected from his bishoprick in Ireland during a civil war. (Godwin, edit. Richardion, p. 606, not.)

11. 1362. Roger Cradock, a friar minor, from Waterford to Landaff, by Papal bull. (Ibid. p. 607.)

11. 1376. John Swaffam, a white friar, from Cloyne to Bangor, by Papal bull. He obtained this favour in confequence of his having diftinguished him felt by his writings againft the followers of Wickliffe. (Ibid. p. 623.)

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