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nature, no considerations of pity or cnli!^!)<rr;cd nations — in a word, HE 

 svmpathyrrstrnininsj, orcvciiqualifjinsr, makes false and iinporft.ct estimates of 

 liis antipathies, his caprices, or his liis own being, of his duties to Iiis lol- 

 giuttoiiies; while, more unhappy tiian low-Iieinsis, and of his relations to all 

 liis victims, he is constantly arraigning being, and then passes his days in quc»- 

 that system in which he is the chief cause tioning the providence of Nature, in as- 

 of more misery than all oilier causes cribiiig Evil to supernatural causes, and 

 joined together — he forgets, that to in feverish expectations of restdts con- 

 live, and let live, is a maxim of uni- trary to the necessary harmony of the 

 ■versal justice, extending not only to all world! 



man's relations with his fellow mm, I was thus employed in drawing a 



but to inferior creatures, to whom his species of Indictment against tlie errors, 



moral obligations are the greater, be- follies, selfishness, and vices of my fcf- 



causo their lives and happiness arc often low-men, while I passed along a pka- 



within his powcr^HE is the patient of sant loot-path, which conducted me from 



the imaltcrable progress of universal Brick-stables to the carriage-road from 



causation, yet makes a difficnlty of sub- IVJortlake to Kew. On arriving at tha 



niitting to the impartial distribution of stile, I saw a colony of the people 



■the provisions which sustain all other called Gypsies, and, gratified at falling 



beings — he afflicts himself that he can- in with them, I s (rued myself upon it, 



not live for ever, though he sees all mul, hailing tiie eldest of the men 



organized being decay around him, and in terms yf civility, he approached me 



Ihough his forci'ullieis have successively courteously, and I promised myself, 



died to make room for him — he repines from the interview, a fund of informa- 



at the thought of losing that life, the use tion relative to the economy of thos* 



of which he so often abuses; and, though singular people. Common Sense. 



lie began to exist but yesterday, thinks — «» — 



tlie world was made fur him, and that To tie Editor of the 3I(yntitly Magazine. 



hr- ought to continue to enjoy it for 

 <5vxj- — HE sees no benevolence in the 

 Scheme of Nature which provides eter- 

 nal youth to partake of the plcasllires 

 •f c'xistcnce ; and which, destroying 

 tliose pleasures by satiety of eiijox nient 



SIR, 



LCI I has been said of late con- 

 cerning the improvements and 

 alterations in stage-coaches, which, 

 from the numerous accidents that conti- 

 nue to liappcn, seem to require speedy 



produces the blunted feelings of disease and serious regulation, 

 and old ago — he mars all his perceptions The chief weight in these machines 



of well-being by anticipating the stop- arises fnjin the luggage, at once impc- 



page of his vital functions, though, be- <liug the velocity of the carriage, and 



lore that event, he necessarily ceases to endaugrring the safety of the passcn-ijers, 



be conscious or to sufTer — he seeks in- by its injudicious arrangement, what 



Wulgenccs iminoAided for by the eonrsp proper reason can be assigned why the; 



*>f Nature, and then anxiously emjilo^s luggage should not, in many cases, at 



himself in endeavouring to cheat olliris bast of the long-stages, be conveyed in 



«f the labour requisite to ]iroeurc thorn a separate velncle. travelling with that 



he desires to govern olhersi, but, re- containing the passengers, who would 



.«-ardlcss of their dependence on his bo- not thereby be continually stopped on 

 nevoience, is commonly gratified in dis- the road to deliver parcels. It would, 

 playing; the power entrusted to him, by indeed, be of little consequence if the 

 a tyrannical abuse of it — he professes to luggage were even to arrive in a reason- 

 lovo wisdom, yet in nil his establish- able time after the passengers ; and, as 

 nicnts for promoting it he sots up false to any additional expense, it might 

 standards of truth; and i>ersecutes, «ven eiiher be defrayed by a small augmeii- 

 with religious intolerani'C, all attempts tation of tlic fare, or a specific charge 

 to swerve from them — he makes laws, for the luggage, or even without either. 

 Tviiich, in the hands of mercenary law- by taking a hoisc or two from the car- 

 eers, setve as snares to unwary poverty, riage that conveyed the passengers, and 

 ^ut as shields to crafty wealth — he ac- adding it to tho luggage-machine. It is 

 Idiowlcdgesthe importiuceorcducating to be regretted that too little atteition 

 ^outh, yet teaches them any thing rather is paid to hints of this nature by tho le- 

 than their social duties in the political gislalure, ajid that men in power toi.> ge- 



statc in ^Miicn they live — he adopts 

 the customs of barbarous ages as 

 jirccedonts of practice, anil founds (in 

 ibfni codes for the 'government of 



juraliv despise orncglect \vhat docs not 

 originate from themselves. 



On another subjctt — the controversy 

 rfspceTiit" th« Britt. on the new ooins. 



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