The critic's observations on the pronunciation of Amharic and Galla words are so elaborate a specie men of trifling, that it would be wholly lost labour to wade through them. Of the Galla language he knows nothing, and had the case been different, still I might be permitted to judge by my own ear in the case of a tongue absolutely unwritten. Those acquainted with the works of travellers in the East are aware that almost every one has adopted a peculiar system of orthography. All, therefore, but one, might, by a disingenuous critic, be accused of ignorance. But the reviewer goes on to inform the public that "the _vulgar_ mistakes of English pronunciation--which are not participated in by Germans--are the wrong insertion or omission of the aspirate." This is designed as a death-blow to me for writing _Etagainya_ without an initial A, which highly culpable omission he presently afterwards takes occasion to rectify. Under this charge of vulgarity it is some consolation to me to quote as my authority Isenberg's Amharic Dictionary, more especially since that gentleman _is_ a German; but had he even been otherwise, I think his views on this subject of the aspirate might perhaps be preferred to those of any cockney. The elaborate disquisition on _larva_ and _boudak_ [For _boudak_ read _boudah_. It ought to have been translated _sorcerer_, but all artisans, blacksmiths especially, are regarded as _boudahs_. Vide Isenberg's Amharic Dictionary. For _larva_ read _lava_.] proves the critic to be qualified for the reading of proof-sheets, which appears to be the highest praise he can justly lay claim to. He can detect a misprint in other men's works, and when his passions are unexcited, may possibly be able to correct it. But in the matters of ear or style, I would just as soon defer to the judgment of the great "Arqueem Nobba," whoever that may be, [Vide Anti-Slavery Reporter, November 29th, 1843, page 222. For the information of my readers, it may be proper to explain that "Arqueem nobba" is believed to be doing duty for "Hakim nabaroo," "You were the doctor"] from whom he seems to have obtained so much of his Oriental learning. He well knows to whom I allude, if no one else does. I shall turn his weapons against himself, and take occasion to question the classical attainments of a reviewer who translates "_suum cuique_"--"be it for good or ill;" and shall direct the public indignation to the fact of his having aroused curiosity "without gratifying it," by the statement that I "studiously laboured to keep out of sight _a very_ special service performed by the members of the Embassy." What was it? He must surely be thinking of _his reporters_, not of _my assistants_. Be this as it may, he will not attempt to screen himself behind the printer's devil, it being clear that no typical errors can be admissible in his forty pages of letter-press, if two are to be held inexcusable in my twelve hundred!