The Sun.
London, England, 1807-02-12 00:00:00

ACHES.

the following Letter from a beinleman who haS
made the English language his particular stiidy,
.and
Who has long been preparing a, work in that language
for the pubhc, will, wesconbeive, set the question at
rest, and put an end to the -clatuUurs of vulgar ig-
norance.

TO-THE EDITOR OF 'TIE SUN.

SIR,

rt is indisputably true, that the word aches *as
anciently a dissyllable, and that Mr. KEMBLE IS jus-
tified in using it as such, in the passage alluded to
in the Play of The Tempesl, for there can be neither
tnelody nor harmony in the verse without it, The
proper ofthography is Ac/i, Our. Aches, and the
proper pronunciation "itch, plur. 'ltches.
• . And G zu.,l A wore a velvet mastick patch
Upon her temples, when no tooth did ach.

Bp. Halle' s Satires, S. I.
As no man of his own self catche's
1 he itch, or amorous French acbes ;
So no man does himself convince,
By his own doilrine, of his sins.
,Butlet's fludi4. Pt. 3. e. 2'.

Ch sounded tch, cannot have the sound of k, but
some ignorant critic,. imagining, the cit to be the
Greek hard k, substituted that letter for the double
consonant, aid the word has since taken a new or-
thography, and new prolation. Your correspondent,
who has addressed you under the signature of Metre,
has been as unfortunate in his attempt to inexculpate
Mr. KEMBLE, as in miscopying the evidence he has
.adduced from SWIFT. The word aches he has used
as a monosyllable.

A coming shower your shooting corns presage,
Old ocher will throb, your hollt;w tooth will rage.
Swf 's Descri pion of a City Shcruirr.
The follotting Authors confirm the pronunCiation
of Mr. KENIDLE—
Age! Acidrsi and incessant jealutasy,
Scorn'd poverty, and powerless lust be thine.
.
Sir ram. Daveriiinr's Distresses, A. 4. s. 1.
. ,
Old Sinners have all points •
th' compass in their bones and joints,
And, by their pangs and Achrs, find
AU turns and changes of the wind.
Butler's tfudiGras, Pt. 3, c. 2, 1. 407.

When in the bleatei's marrow aches breed,
And putrid fevers on his spirits teed ;
it wilt be good t'avert the raging pain,
By opening in his foot the beating vein.
Ogldyls' Virg. B.ok 3.

From the• above citations, it Appears,
.that
KEI4BLE is exculpated in pronouncing the word as a
dissyllable, but convicted of an impropriety in pro-
lating it—a-kes. I am, Sir, your's, &c.
JOHN PYTCHES.
GrOtoti House, .Feb. ;.

• Mrs. BILLtNGTON, it seems,. perseveres in de-
' dining all Engagements for the present Season 3
Mrs. MoUNI'AIN. is therefore to take her station at
the Concert of Ancient Music. •
CATAL:.:NI seems to have more sense -than most of
her admirers, as she ha 4 modestly expressed her sur-
prise that so much fuss should have been made abbut
her in this.country.
Rout has resumed the Management of the Elin,
burgh Theatre, which has a very respe&able Com-
pany, and is warmly patronized by the public. His
chief Tragic Hero is Mr. MEGGETT, who, accord-
ing to all accounts, is an A&or of no ordinary talents.
It is somewhat whimsical that an Attorney's An-
ewer in a recent cause before the House of Peers,
which consisted of seven thousand seven hundred and
SRI fiitios, should nevertheless have been deeme)
by the Plaintiff's Counsel insufficient !
The late Mr. ISAAC REED left a very valuable Li-
brary, chiefly consisting of English Books. He re-
quested that it might be arranged. by Mr. TODD, the
accurate and erudite Annotator of SPENCER and
Mu. Torr, who has readily undertaken the friendly
task.

The Meeting of the Committee of SHIP OWNERS,
in. order to Pitition Parliament' for the extinaion of
the War Taxes upon the tonnage of Ships and Ves-
sels of Great Britain, after the termination of the
present war, may he considered as somewhat early,
unless the Members of that Committee are gifted
with the power of second sight, and can perceive the
near approaches of Peace, amidst all the clouds and
tempests that disturb every part of the civitized
world, and prevent a ray of hope from reaching
those who Possess the ordinary faculties of mankind.

lIIRTti.—On Tuesday, at his house in Lincoln's-
inn-fieldi, the Lady of TuomAs PCiaGiiINE Couß.
T&SAY, Esq. of a Daughter.