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ing to publish by subseription a second 
little volume of the same writer. lt was 
the intention of the young woman. her- 
self, in conformity with the adyice of her 
friends, to bid adieu to the Muses, and to 
give the whole of her mind in future to 
teaching a school, She had succeeded 
in obtaining thirty little scholars, at five 
shillings per quarter, and gave so much 
satisfaction to the parents by her judici- 
ous treatment, and by the rapid improve- 
ment of their-children, that no doubt re- 
mained. of lici-success, should her health 
be tolerably established, of which there 
appeared some hope last year on her 
return from a visit to a friend in the 
country, where she had spent the summer 
holidays. But this flattering hope soon 
yauished; the close. confinement, and 
renewed exertions of her school brought 
on an ineveased return of her former ail- 
ment, al abscess in the side, and she was 
taken so extvemely ill the beginning of 
Janvary last, as to be wholly confined to 
her bed more than tive months;. and al- 
though now considerably better, is -yet 
unable to sit up longer than two or three 
hours at different intervals in the course 
of the day, But it may be objected, 
whatis all this to the public? Are there not 
many widows in Britain, whose delicacy of 
constitution may equally disable them 
from. procuring a comfortable livelihood ? 
Undoubtedly there may be, but the editor 
would ,plead, not one perhaps who with 
go few advantages, or rather without any 
oue advantage of a cultivated education, 
has been capable of the same measure of 
mental, moral, and religious, progress. 
Often during the last half year, have her 
ynedical and other friends conceived her 
‘to-be at the point of death, but still was 
her mind ever actively employed. Un- 
able to read to increase her little stock 
of knowledge, or to beguile the tedious 
hours of pain and languor, she would put 
down fram time to time, with a pencil, 
in a moment of mitigated suffering, such 
thoughts as might have presenced them- 
’ selves, whether connected with her own 
afflicted situation, expressive of gratitude 
for the kindness of her friends, or sug- 
gested by any thing she might hear ac- 
“eidentally of the events that were passfig 
around her, These little pieces were 
shown to the editor, and it was her in- 
tention on the death of the composer, 
which was then daily expected, to make 
a selection of them for publication, both 
as being highly curious and very inter- 
esting in themselves, and also for the be- 
neit of her arphan Loy, now four years 
Charlotte Richardson's Poems. 
[Sept. 1, 
of age. In this design it is apprehended 
there wouid have been no impropriety, 
nothing that should have been deemed 
obtrusive and impertinent, and she hopes 
therefore that it will sot be thought so 
now, although the life of the mother js 
still spared, her recovery being yet ex- 
tremely doubtful, and the great expence 
of a severe illness indefinitely prolonged, 
exceedingly distressing. 
The editor flatters herself, that many 
of the subscribers to the former little 
volume, which is now out of print, and 
which met with so much favour from 
them, and from the public, (six hundred , 
copies more than the number subscribed 
for, having been sold) will again come 
forward to patronize the present,** If 
she does not deceive herself, they will 
not repent of their kfndiess, beimg per= 
suaded that they will recognise in this 
second publication the same pious re- 
signation, the same interesting sensibi- 
lity, the same humility of spirit, which 
distinguished the first, improved by a 
greater variety of ideas, and expressed in 
more correct and appropriate language, 
they will clearly perceive that the in- 
telligent teacher cf little children, has 
possessed greater opportunities for the 
improvement of original genius, than the 
lowly cookmaid, educated by the frugal 
hand. of charity, 
A specimen of the intended selection 
will be shewn, and a subscription of 
five shillings opened by Messrs. Johnson, 
St. Panl’s Charch-yard; Hatchard, Pioe 
cadilly; Mawman, Poultry; and by 
Longman and Co, Paternoster-row. 
By inserting the above in the next 
Number of ‘your widely circulated Mas 
gazine, you will much oblige, 
York, Your's, &e. | 
July 28, 1808, C. Carre. 
ae 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
REFLECTIONS: occasioned by the PERUs 
SAL of a recent TREATISE ON INDIs 
GENCE, by p. corquuouy, Esg. 
Quand la nature et la raison 
Reglentnotre dépense 3 
On ne voit jamais l’indigence 
Mettre le trouble 4 la maison, 
HE wise management of the poor 
is a boundless field of speculation. 
The first question which occurs is this: 
ought any legislative provision at all be 
made for their support?, Adam Smith, and 
* The former little volume was so much - 
liked in America, that a new edition has been 
printed there, 
professop 
