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1801.] New Arguments for Inclofure. 399

I colle&ed thoſe under a principle of mine,““ that the minds of ſervants are ſimilar to children of from eight to twelve, aud up to ſixteen years of age:” to them I haye lately added, THE NeEwrToNIAN SYSTEM, by Maſter Teleſcope, price 18. 6d. printed by Vernor and Hood, and Lackington, Allen, and Co. It is rather ſingular, Mr. Editor, that we ſhould complain ſo much of the immoralities of our ſervants, male and female, and yet take no method, ſubſtantially, to cure it—a hint that was thrown out-by. the ſame correſpondent in the above-mentioned letter, ſe-ms to be about being realized—a“ Committee of the Houſe of Commons having lately been appointed to examine into the exiſting laws on menial ſervants, and to point out fur- ther improvements in that part of the code.

Appearing as I do at preſent the ſuggeſter of reforms for the lower claſſes of ſociety, permit me to tranſcribe for your very valuable Magazine, an article from the Leiceſter Papers.“ It is in contemplation to eſtabliſh a ſmall Library here, conſiſting of pradtical treatiſes on moral, religious, and other ſubje&s for the uſe of the poor; this appears a laudable plan for enabling them to profit by the inſtru&ions afforded primarily at Parochial and Sunday Schools, which otherwiſe they are not likely to do, as books are too expenſive for them to purchaſe. An office is opened, where all who are diſpoſed to encouraze this attempre may ſend books, and were the poor, by applying on‘certain appointed days, will have books tent them for a very ſmall ac- knowledgment.—Does not this, Mr. Editor, bring to your recol- le&ion an event that took place ſome time ago!—“ The Poor have the Goſpel preached unto them.”

Yours, with great reſpe&, 1: CLCENNEET:

SS Dt See À NEW ARGUMENTS FOR INCLOSURE. To the Editor ef the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine. ILM, Offer you the four following arguments,.which I have never yet ſeen in print“(that I can recolle&) in favour of Univerßal Incloſure. The firſt is, ¿hat it would fap, in a great meaſure, large crowds of journeymen from meeting either to raiſe their wages, as was lately apprehended to be the caſe in many parts* of Yorkſhire, or for more dangerous bolitical purpoſes; as the

* I have been a witneſs to this:—La‘ely on my way to Liverpool, I ſtaid a few hours at Bradford, where a moſt reſpe&table family ſhewed me a paper that had been circulated amongſt the journeymen, appointing a meeting on a ſmall 7007 near that town; I think it was called Bradford Moor; it how

ever failedof its intention,- Would they have met there bad that been incloied?