Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-10

and accordingly, when he wrote his :" Historic &c
clesiastoa," they must have been nearly three hun
bred years in possession of the island-a locality
TO be as favorable for the preservation OF
their peculiar manners and customs as any IN Great
Britain and locality wherein we have no evidence
of their ever having been disturbed yet not trace,
nor shadow of trace, either in early or modern
times has ever been discovered of their separate
tionality and language; for, the Jutes were not
Germans, but Scandinavians-that is, Ddnes--we
would naturally expect to find numerous traces of
their occupancy especially the Danes of the ninth
and tenth centuries left behind them abundant evil
dence of their transient residence in Great Britain.
1 According to Bede, the Angles came from Aaylen,
a portion of the Duchy of Seswick but this state
ment is also exceedingly improbable, on the same
ground as thai above stated concerning the Jutes !;
for this territory is Just as Danish any part Of
Denmark, and does not appear ever to have been
occupied by Germanic population at all. Who
the Angles really were, and what their relation
to the Saxons questions by of easy solu-
ton and ii is little remarkable that the people from
whom England derives it ingsslaadl and our lam
guage its title English should be just the people whose
historical place amongst the natonsof Germany is both
insignificant and uncertain " that in and of them
selves know next nothing about them. The Angh
is true mentioned by Tacitus By Ptolny by Pro-
oopus and others but conflicting the Germanic
anes which they related by theee several writer's
that becomes impossible to assign them their exact po
ston and relationship among the tribes with which they
cassed varioasly In the present state Of our
knowledge says Mr. Latham the only safe fact to
be that of the relation Of both An9s and Saxons
torthe present Engd of England. This brings the two
sections Angles and saxons within very close affinity,
and makes it probable that, just present. descend
ants Of the Saxons English 4nglsl in Britain so, in
Az no tta
were Sarons in Germany. Why, however the one name
preponderated the continent and the other in England
is difficult ascertain The Saxons occupied before their
invasion Of Great Britain the country lying between the
Ebe and Eyder nearly but quite coincident with the
present territories Of Hanover, Gutenberg Westphalia
and part of Holstein This may be termed the AHglo
Sdzoa area Of Germany, since for the above
toned it seems most likely suppose that the country
of the Angles nearly conceded with the country of the
Saxons From this district is certain that Great Rr
tain was first invaded
The next point to be settled Tor rather should we not
say unsettled since the later inquiries Of Mr. Kembe ??
that which assigns the dae of this Gemanc invasion
The chronology of all the school books fixes it at
about the middle of the fifth century, "a D. 449) But
according recent historical researches quite pro-
babe that German tribes had located themselves in Eng
land before this period The direct and to us sa-
brated document relative early history entitled
q Notia utrisque mper" the latest admissible date Of
which is st least half century earlier than the
LEST date assigned to the arrival of Hengst and his fol-
lowers Among the important officers Of State mentioned
in this record as administering in part the affairs of the
island is the Comes Litoris Saxonici per Brannia
the Count Of the Saroa Shore along Britain whose Co
vernment which extended from the present site of
Portsmouth to Wells in Norfolk was supported by va
rous civil and military establishments dispersed along
the whole seaboard Thus far willing to 90 with
Mr. Kemble in assigning earlier date the Germanic
occupancy Of part of England But when he proceeds
to dscred and reject "devoid Of historical truth in
every DETAIL the Saxon and Welsh traditions recorded
by all the chronicers relative to larger and subsequent
migratons under the leadership of Hengis Horsa and
Ael, think that he is carrying the criticism
of age less prone believe altogether far. To
pronounce he does the whole story of these
vasons nothing than heetng forms of mythical
and epical thought is think draw differences from
the Imagination Of the historian rather than from the
best aainabe Of historic For ourselves
content to believe that though Saxons may have
settled in England before the fifth century there also
special and increased immigration about the period
usually stated the date Of the Saxon invasion.
Next in order is the question respecting the nitie Of
the English with the languages Of Germany and Scand
nayia collectively termed the Gothic tongue The Scan
dinavan branch Of the Gothic stock comprehend l. The
dialects Of Scandinavia Proper, Norway and Sweden
9. OF the Danish Islands and Jutand 8. OF Iceland
A. OF the Feroe Isles The Teutonic branch falls into
three grand divisions: l. The Moeso-Gothic containing
the Bible translation Of the Arian Bishop Ulphilas
The Hgh-Germanic. 8. The Low-Germanic in which
last comprised the AngloSaxon and modern English
1t may be stated in general that the language Of
England has been formed of three elements Firstly
those referabe to the original British population the
Celts secondly the Ango-Saxon, Germanc, import
ed elements; thirdly miscellaneous elements introduced
since the AngoSaxon conquest The second Of the above
named constituents composes Of course the body of the
language appears from the fact that at least
fveeghths Of the Anglosaxon spoken by Alfred yet
lives In the English tongue spoken the present day
The Celtic element Of the English language is exceeding
slight and hardly deserves special mention rs the few
words of Celtic origin chiefly those which have come
into language from being originally common TO both
the Celtic and Gothic stocks, which, though originally
Celtic have been directly imported into our tongue
through the medium of another language such as Druid
Bard &C., whose immediate source is not Celtic but
Latin. The proper Names however, Of many geographi-
cal localities in England dsmonstaby Celtic MS are
also few words gradually infused into the tongue from
the Welsh. Among the miscellaneous elements which
have tended to modify the composition Of the Anglo
Saxon tongue, may mention first the Danish Morse
In 1871 A. ID. the Norsemen made complete conquest Of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Is Of England north Of the river
Humber-which they governed under independent Danish
Kings until the middle Of the tenth century 1908 the