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fcparate, from fuch as fliould be received, for the purpofe of correc- 

 tion, and reformation ; or fhould only be fent among them, in cafe of ill 

 conduft, by way of degradation, and punifliment, or in the capacities of fu- 

 perintendents and inftruftors. Again, the two fexes, fliould be kept 

 diftinft from each other; and each fex fliould be fubdivided, into fe- 

 vcral claffes, according to their ages, their degree of ftrength, their 

 moral conduft, their aptitude for learning any art, or manufafture ; 

 or the knowledge of any, which they might already poflisfs. Tafks 

 fliould be afligned to all thefe different claffes, with a regard to the 

 feveral principles of divifion, which governed their formation. The riot- 

 ous and diforderly fliould be compelled to work, in total folitude. 

 Committees of enquiry and infpe^lion, chofen annually, by the magif- 

 trates of the county, with the concurrence of the minifters of religion, 

 in each diftrift, to fuperintend the management of the orphan houfes, 

 the fchools, the work houfes, and penitentiaries fliould take care to 

 enforce fuch regulations, as might be adopted. 



I fliall conclude this feftion with an account of the hospicio of Ca- 

 diz, as I find it given in Townjhend's Travels,* which will convey to 

 my readers, fome moft ufeful hints, on the fubjeft of public femina- 

 ries and work-houfes. The plan of it icems to have originated, from 

 the notions of the enlightened and philofophical Campomanes, on the 

 fubjefts of national indufliry, and political economy. 

 • " In this inftitution are received the poor, of every nation, who are 

 unable to maintain themfelves ; and, in the firfl; place, orphans, defert- 

 ed children, and the aged, who are pad the capability for labour. 

 The blind, the lame, idiots, and mad people, but efpecially pricfts, 

 when aged, and reduced to poverty. Even ftrangers are admitted to 

 a temporary refidence in this eftablifliment. 



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* Townfend's Travels, Vol. 2d, page 360. See a traft by Count Campomanes, en- 

 tiled, " Educacion popular." See alfo the regulations of the work-houfe at Shriv/sjhury. 



