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To ( He Editor * ; Sm , . ;/ ; f j- ' ^ Vt ¦ ' ¦¦ I have just heard that Mr . Edward Williams , # b 11 knowft by the name of the Welsh Bard , died a few months sln £ eV in his native vilkge , near O 6 w- * -
bridge , Glamorganshire ** He * was at than of much wtfrth , and , j 2 bti §? lerihg the disadvantages under which he had laboured , of consideirabfe liteTa ^ at- * tainments : and , as he tnafiifested peeuliar zeal in propagating the Unitarian doctrine in Wales , having been instrumental in Fofmirig Unitarian sibcieties there , in the distribution of Unitarian books , and in publishing & hymn ^ bobk iii Welsh for tM use of Unitarian congregations , it may be expected that some one well acquainted with Tiis character , principles , and attainments * will pay in due time a proper tribute of respect to-his memory . All Ihavef to offer will be found in what follows .
I have by me a letter received frotn Mf . Williams , dated Flimston , Cowbridge , Glamorganshire , Sept . 6 , 1812 , out of which I shall malse the fol- < lowing extract After various matters of a private nature , Mr . Williams thtis adds * u Now 4 et me mention a curiosity to you . In the manuscript works of our venerable bard , Taliesin , printed lately , who lived in the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century , we fine fragments of poems in an unknown language , one of them as follows :
" Orauant cmiarrt ' ...:: ? O brithi Brithoi Nuoes nuedi . . Brithi brithanai Sychedi edi euroi , &c . " * - Mr . Williams adds , " there is not a word of Welsh in these verses : there
is nothing like Welsh in them . A learned gentleman of Bristol , who has been in India , and has acquired a knowledge of several Indian languages , in a letter which I lately received from him , assures me that the above fragment and others are pure Sanscrit . I am astonished at this , " continues Mr . Williams ; " I know not how to believe it I am equally unable to believe that this gentleman intends to impose upon me , or upon any one else , in what he says . "
Thus fbr Mr . E . Williams . —I shewed this fetter at the time I received it to a gentleman well acquainted with the Sanscrit , and I was given to understand from him also , that the above lines are really in the Sanscrit language . Now , Sir , whether Mr . Williams has noticed these lines in any w&rk of his , or made any remarks on them , I"do not know : I dp not recollect that he has in the only work of his which I possess , ( his two volumes of poems , published in 1794 , though he has given there some of the Welsh Bardic Triades ,
With numerous extracts , ) nor is it of much consequence , in the view which I have in sending this extractj whether he has or not 5 as in either case the words will be equally susceptible of critical examination , and may be safely left for ( he consideration of any of your learned readers who may have made Welsh and Oriental antiquities the objects ot their research , I shall make no observations of my own . If , therefore , you approve the above communication , I may , perhaps , at some future opportunity submit to you a few thoughts whicp , how imperfect soever they may be , mttyv > perhaps , lead some Of your readers , better acquainted with Welsh anrtiiqttitie * , to make the matte * Alluded to aboVe'the subject ; of thei * taidre serious consideration ; ' < ..... •••»> ¦» ,..-. in ,, ¦ , . ¦» . : . .... !< N ¦ -, , „ ,. „; ¦ k , , QEOR 0 E'DYER . * These lines are printed in the Welsh Archaeology , Vol . h p . 74 ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/30/
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