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I (hall not lofe fight of this pleaflng fubjecSl,* but 

 if the foregoing outline meets the public approba- 

 tion, or feems likely to be adopted by the legiflature, 

 I fhall in due time throw out fuch hints as appear 

 to me likely to render it fuccefsfuh together with 

 fome obfervations (as a confequence of the former) 

 on a probable mode of paying off fifty millions of 

 the national debt, in the courfe of twenty years, 

 without levying any tax which can be felt as a frefli 

 burthen by the people. 



* since writing the above I have read fome Inquiries concerning 

 the Poor, made with equal judgment and humanity by John 

 M*Farlan, D. D. of Edinburgh} which are well worthythe atten- 

 tion of the publick. 



So far this ingenious and valuable author. 



The pidture he has drawn of the refources to be 

 found by a provident management of the poor, is 

 pleaflng in a high degree- His remarks on human 

 nature, in connexion with his fa^ls, are folid and 

 judicious. His fcheme for a general contribution 

 monthly, in aid of fuch a fund as he contends for, has 

 die mod flattering appearance of fuccefs. Happy 

 would it be for this country, were it voluntarily 

 reduced to trial, in every town or diftridt, where the 

 experiment is moft eafyj from fuch experiments 



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