1811,] 
er marriage, by the parish-officers, with 
the assent of two justices, to be appren- 
tices where they shall see convenient. 
And it has been determined, that both 
justices must be present, for that itis a 
judicial* act, and not merely ministerial ; 
they being bound to exercise their best 
deliberation as to the fitness of the per- 
son, the place, and the employment, to 
which the apprentice is to be bound. It 
would he void, if they were not both 
present at the binding: their assent is 
not formal, but necessary; and they are 
bound to withhold it if they see any rea- 
sonable objection. 
It is manifest that convenient means 
what is fitting, (¥e@nxov) in every view. 
The circumstances of the case must be 
peculiar and clear, and very strongly 
" proved, that would justify binding-out te 
a very great distance from the dwelling 
of the child, or of the parent; much 
mere from almost one side of the isiand 
to the other. 
Ifan evident abuse of power should in 
any such case be detected, the justices 
would, of course, be criminally answer- 
able; either by indictment or informa- 
tion, according to the circumstances; or 
the father might bring an action of spe= 
cial trespass on the case. 
The binding-out of apprentices at tle 
age of ten years, under 3 Anne, c. 6, 
is certainly an exceedingly strong in- 
stance of legislative interference. 
P.S, Where an incorporated hundred in- 
terfered to bind-out a child to service, with- 
out consent of the child, the legislature not 
having entrusted them with such a power, it 
met with the strongest reprehension from 
Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough. ° 
I should greatly doubt the validity of a 
binding under either Act, where the child 
was not present at the binding: for how 
otherwise are the justices to judge of its 
fitness to be bound as proposed. 
ILLNESS MITIGABLE BY MUSIC. 
Tn a Jate illness, which has been and is 
the subject of public solicitude, I take 
. the liberty of intimating, and especially 
_ considering the habitual predilection of 
the sufferer for the highest compositions 
in that divine art, that the disorder may 
be at least considerably alleviated, and 
possibly even removed, by music; mean- 
ing, assuredly, music of the slow, soft, 
and svothing, kind. In the selection, 
care would of course be taken, if it 
should be thought adviseable to try its 
influence, to avoid every thing likely to 
* T. 29, E, Ul. K. v. Hams tall Ridwaer, 
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excite painful associations, or any strong 
emotion. 
The tranquillising power of music isne 
new idea. Itis a fact of repeated expe- 
rience, more or less observed in every 
age and country; and whether we regard 
that assemblage of sensative powers, 
which we call our body, or that active 
energy which we denomipate mind, the 
salutary and benign influence of harme- 
nious sound appears every way conform 
able to Nature. 
Nov. 22, 1810. 
a ae 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sIR, 
WAS exceedingly glad to see the sul- 
ject of the present war taken up by 
your correspondent, ‘A True Briton gr 
and I further hope that it will be re- 
sumed in every succeeding Magazine, ull 
the thing itself, melancholy and distres- 
ing in every point of view, shall wholly 
cease to exist. 
Descriptions of this kind, in order to 
leave behind them a due impression on 
the reader’s mind, should be as brief as 
possible; and therefore I shal! instantly 
proceed to answer your correspondent’s 
questions, 
4. What are the English fighting for? 
’ Twas about to amend this interrega- 
tory, and. to make it “compelled to 
fight for,” till I recollected tisat, from the 
most artful means that perhaps have 
ever been practised, the very people 
themselves have been deluded into a 
belief in the justice and necessity of the 
measure. Indeed, a very considerable 
portion of the public, in the various 
shapes of lvan-mongers, contractors, 
army-agents, newspaper editors, tax~ 
gatherers, gun-smiths, gun-powder mer- 
chants, and merchants of all kinds, are 
most materially benefited by a continu- 
ation of the war, The wild beasts too 
at the City Menagerie, the Stock- 
Exchange, are incessantly grunting 
against peace, or roaring for eternal war, 
that they may fatten on the carcases of 
innocent men. A!l the jubilee tribe too 
are greatly interested on this occasion ; 
and there is some reason to fear that 
they, or their descendants, will celebrate 
another jubilee for the fiftieth year of the 
war. Even a branch of the constitution 
itself, the chief member of which we de- 
clare, and indeed happily know to be 
incapable of doing wrong, might be im- 
plicated in the suspicion of being in- 
terested in the profits of the war, if we 
did not likewise know that all the pro- 
fits, or droits, as they are legally termed, 
wese 
Carer Lorrr. 
