XXIV ADVERTISEMENT. 



the celibacy of mod domeftic fervants. Had it 

 been in my power to have enlarged on this topic, 

 I could have demonftrated, that the arrangements 

 of iiociety never can contravene the laws of Na- 

 ture ; that it is the inteieft of mafters to have their 

 domeftics marry, becaufe they pay, let them do 

 their beft, the expenfe of the fmuggled libertinifm 

 of fervants, much more exceffivc, beyond all quef- 

 tion, than that of an honeft fettlement, for the 

 flrumpet always will fpend more than the woman 

 of charader. 



I could have demonftrated the pernicious influ- 

 ence which the bad morals of unmarried fervants 

 have on the children of their mafters. I could, 

 likewife, have dilated on the harfhnefs of our pre- 

 tended Fathers of families, who abandon their fer- 

 vants, on the firft attack of ficknefs, or the ap- 

 proach of old age, or when they become parents; 

 on the obligations under which they lie, to pro- 

 vide for the neceffities of thefe men, who are their 

 natural friends, the vidims of their ill temper, the 

 witnefTes of their weaknefs, and the fources of 

 their reputation, whether good or bad. I could 

 have infifted on the neceffity of re-eftablifliing in, 

 at leaft, the firft rights of humanity, the unfortu- 

 nate wretches deprived of moft of the privileges 

 of citizens. I could have demonftrated what an 

 influence their happinefs has on the happinefs of 



fiimilies, 



