1806.] 



A Case vi Casuistry. 



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fourt't'ft: itfiill, lio\*cvcr, wanted twelve 

 of tlie level deeiued neceliary to navigate 

 »ke Ohio bouts. 



The boats which convey flour from 

 Pittlbuigh to New Orleans take from 250 

 to actO barrels each, tliat jroduced ou 

 tlie Mononga'iela beini^ coulidcred the 

 fceit. A company lately cilablillied font 

 250,000 barrels for folc in the ye:ir 1804. 

 Ill the fame period it is calculated 

 100,000 tons of manufactured articles 

 palled lhroui:hthis town down the Ohio; 

 and it is alVerted the average increafe is 

 2000 tons annually. 



It may fome years hence be a matter 

 of curiofity to compare the prcfent with 

 tlie then llate of the inanufactories of 

 Pinlturgli. With this view 1 fubjoin the 

 facts 1 was able to collect on this fabjett 

 ■wlien there. I admit they do not exhi- 

 bit marks of a great rnauufaCturing town, 

 and oujrlit only to be conlldtred as the 

 incipient proofs of future greatuefs. On 

 the Alleghany, and oppolite Plttlliurgh, 

 are Colonel O'Hara's glafs-works. In 

 the town ho h;is a brew-houfe, two tan- 

 yards, and a yard for lhip-buildii;g, in 

 which, wlien I WiiS there, was building 

 one brig of 250 tons, and from which had 

 lately been launched onefliip of350ton.'<. 

 A tin-manufactory was ellablillied, which 

 then employed t^venty-eight pertbns ; a 

 nail-manufattory thirty ; a cotton-mauu- 

 tlu^turer liad recently ti\cd himfelf, and 

 employed but twelve ; thirty workmen 

 were engasicd in fliip, and about fifty in 

 boat-building ; thirty were alfo engaged 

 in the rope-walks, which received their 

 hemp from Ohio and Kentucky ftatcs. 

 . Such were the manufactories of this, 

 at no diftant period, important town ; 

 and therew ith 1 conclude this letter, with 

 the ufual affurances of the elleem of, bcc, 



Richard Dlnmoke. 

 Akxandria, April 10, ISOtJ. 



P. S. A gentleman lately arrived from 

 England brought witti him j'our i\Ia<;azine 

 for Decern lier lull, in which I fee the follow- 

 Jng error? in my firft letter, which I beg of 

 you to Botice. 



In the laft line in p. 415, for "6 dollar.'," 

 fliould be inferted "16 dollar?." 



In Ihefolloiviog page (41C,) " a" fliould 

 be left out hef'oie " democratic." 



In the 1ft column, line 46, infert " pour- 

 frayed" inftttssd of" purchal'cd." 

 ( In the '.'(1 coliann, line 22 from the bottom 

 of thf page, read " carriages," for " car- 

 riage." 



In p. 417, col. 1, ]. 17, for " beneficial," 

 read "prejudicial." — And in the laft line 

 but nw- of the letter, aitet «<ii«4t," ujicft 

 *' p.ti,Vet.'' 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



A CASE IN CASUISTKY. 



IN the Anniuil llfview, (HI., If35,) the 

 the author of a Guide to Immortality 

 is indire(^tly called to account for conti- 

 nuing in a church to many of wliofe doc- 

 trines his book is defcribed ;is adverfe. 

 Suppofmg the i\\.ii correctly liated, why 

 ought he to quit it } 



if at the time of fubfcribing tlie ar- 

 ticles, and of receiving his two fucccflive 

 ordinations, he was a believer in the lli- 

 pulated doClrines, he had clearly a right 

 to perform or undergo thefe acts. If he 

 continues to read the prefcribcdliturgic-i, 

 if he avoids to ])rcach forbliidcn tenets, 

 if he teaches in the public temples no- 

 thing but the religion of the Rate, he is 

 (till obedient to the magiftrate, and per- 

 forms the contract tor whicli his lalary 

 was fet apart by Government. What 

 reafon is there for his renouncing it ? It^ 

 in his official capacity of prieft, he does 

 not fwerve from his original agreement, 

 why may he not continue to avad him- 

 felf of the benefice attached to that pub- 

 lic office ? 



AN'hen a blind man Lires a fcholar to 

 read to him, muil the latter decline read- 

 ing aloud Hume's EHay on IMiracles, if 

 lie happens to dilVent from the doctrine 

 therein contained .? Let him read his 

 talk, and, if he has a certain rank of in- 

 tellect, let him make his obie(!;tioas. So 

 a ininiller, I'urely, in his private capacity 

 of citizen, may with propriety recom- 

 mend an alteration in the very liturgies 

 he is employed to read aloud to a blind 

 and iirnoraut multitude. The rights of 

 the individual do not merge in tliofe of 

 theprieft : he may, in his peilbnal capa- 

 city, confcientiouily and fitly advife the 

 public to confult thofe interpreters of 

 Scripture who have combated the religion 

 which the country has inftituted, andurga 

 a modification of the tenure of the ec- 

 clefiaftic office : elfe the relbrmei'S had 

 no right to propofe their change. 



No one takes it amifs in a civil maglA 

 trate, in a jutlice of the peace, for in- 

 Itance, the I'ubfcribing of a petition for 

 tlip repeal of a law which lie continues to 

 execute, or the writing of a pampldet, or 

 the calling of a meeting, againll it. Ex- 

 actly parallel is the duty and obligation 

 of the religious magillrate : the prieft is 

 to continue executing the appointed talk 

 while it remains appointed ; but fuiely 

 he may complain, and loudly too, of the 

 eftabliilied fervice ; and may write books 

 to induce the lawgiver to innovate, and 

 may petition the legillacuie for reliet, 



and, 



