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troduce them without any comment, 
merely premising that I am not sufhe 
ciently acquainted with the juridical his- 
tory of this sect, to know whether these 
regulations are of ancient or modern 
date; and, diso, should they be in any 
ways incorrectly stated, I should consider 
jt a favour to have the -errors pointed 
out. 
1. The quakers are directed by their 
annual assembly, not to lend their meet- 
ing-houses to the ministers of any other 
sect, on any occasion whatever: and 
the friends themselves are desired not to 
borrow the meeting-houses of other secs 
taries, if any other convenient building 
ean be obtained. 
2. If any persen who has been dis- 
owned by the society shall desire to be 
boried in the quaker’s burial ground, it 
js always granted ; but it is strictly for- 
hidden for the corpse of such person to 
be taken into the meeting-louse, as 
granted in other cases; and if at the 
_ ground any minister should attend, and 
wish to address the assembly, it 1s not 
allowed to open the meeting-house to 
yeceive the persons, assembled, let the 
weather be ever so unfavourable. 
3. It is generally considered improper 
among the quakers, for any person who 
Wears a tape to his coat, has outside 
pockets, or a high-crowned hat, to fulfil 
the office of clerk in any of their meet- 
ings for discipline, or speak in such 
meetings. 
4. Itis directed by the annual assembly, 
that no quaker shall publish any book 
concerning the principles of the friends, 
without the revision and consent of a 
meeting of elders, called the merning 
meeting. 
5. It is a law of this society, that no 
person shall continue a member, who is 
in the practice of paying tithes, contri- 
_butary to the church rates, or who, in 
any manner supports the clergy, ora 
hireling ministry; but the friends are 
strictly admonished to pay all taxes, even 
war-taves, faithfully and uprightly. 
I. Burrows. 
Chapter Coffee-house, May 8, 1811. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR 
N regard to the grand discovery of 
] Stramonium as a cure of asthma, you 
have given a death-blow to a piece of 
nefarious quackery, by publishing ina 
separate pamphlet, the communications 
mace to your respectable Mavazine, with 
other authentic documents onthe sub- 
ject, 
The 2uakers—Stramonium Pamphict. 
-geal of Mr. Williamse-Eprt. 
[July 4 ’ 
Your pamphler will doa great deal of 
good, and render an important service 
to truth and science, which hus suffered 
by the tritk of some person calling him- 
self Fisher, who has, by his audacity, 
contrived to palm one of his nostrums on 
the public, instead of the genuine simple 
herb. 
Persons afflicted, booksellers, and 
others, ought to be cautioned against 
the imposition of this Fisher, whose 
pamphlet about his nostrum, only yes- 
terday, was sent to.a friend of mine, 
who had ordered your pamphlet under 
the title of * Communications,” and whose 
bookseller- gravely contends he has exe- 
cuted his order ! 
We all know how the introduction of 
the cow-pox was perplexed by the arti- 
fices of quackery,’and | humbly conceive 
it is your daty to put the public on their 
guard against the new shapes it hasas- 
sumed on this occasion, * 
W. 8S. Witiiams. 
Bristol, June 6, 1611. 
rar 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAT war is an evil, which all good 
and considerate persons, whatever 
their religious persuasions may be, must 
wish to see aholished, I shall take fur 
granted, for it seems to me utterly impos. 
sible to be otherwise. Some there are, 
no doubt, who excuse, or endeavour to 
excuse, most horrid transactions, on the 
plea of necessity; whilst others, witl 
more Christian benevolence, utterly con- 
demn such proceedings. = 
It appears to me, that if the power- 
fuly at the head of different nations, 
would seriously turn their thoughts to the 
subject, that it is not without some pro- 
bability, that a National Court of Arbi- 
tration might be established, to which, 
when two nations disagree, their cause 
might be referred, and that the decision 
of that court would frequently (af not 
always) be abided by. Do we not see 
that when a difference exists between 
two people, respecting some transaction 
in business, that the cause is referred ta 
private aybitration, aud the decision 
* We know of no means of effectually 
guarding ignoranceagainstdelusion, We did 
our duty, and we hupe no more than our duty, 
in collecting, with a public object, all the 
respectable materials and facts relative to 
Asthma, Our pamphlet is before the public, 
and we have no doubt will produce the foes a 
efiects on which we calculated, particularly — 
if every great tity contains one partisan of th 
abided 
