Egat 3 
Why fhould we perpetually omit paying any tribute of refpect 
to the public virtue of the more amiable half of the commu- 
nity? Are women of fuperior birth and education unfit to be 
entrufted with the management of any public concerns? Their 
delicacy indeed forbids them, and their gentlenefs incapacitates 
them from buftling through the mazes of ftubborn politics. 
But to feek the fequeftered cottage; to watch the tender de- 
pofite of the publick; to cherifh the innocent and friendlefs 
orphan, who may, one day, be a fupport or an ornament of 
fociety—thefe are offices congenial to the feelings of the moft 
refined and exalted of the female fex. 
Ir foundlings were difperfed through various parts of the 
kingdom, the rearing of them could be eafily fuperintended by 
ladies refiding in the country. The wages of nurfes might alfo 
be paid by the hands of thefe gracious almoners of Provi- 
dence, or by fome perfon appointed in each county to whom 
proper certificates from them fhould be produced. This plan, 
while it would fave nurfes the time and money which they 
now wafte in journeying to Dublin, would preferve the in- 
fants from the dangers of fatigue and cold to which they are 
expofed in accompanying them. 
TuirpLy, Proper means fhould be employed to cure fuch 
children as are ill of infe¢tious difeafes. 
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Tue difeafes moft fatal to infants are the fmall-pox, and the 
venereal difeafe. 
SINCE 
