Rules for a Proposed Cottage Society. 1 1 1; 



Under the Christendom po- ty, and the whole of the subscriptions, 

 to be expended in the purcliasing of 

 lands and buildings, and erecting cot- 

 tages, and such other buildings as 

 might appear most advisable to the 

 Court of Directors ; the other moiety 

 to be divided among tlie members, 

 according to the number of shares 

 they hold 



1823.] 



known 



Jicy innumerable crimes have abound 

 ed; thousands of prisons have been 

 fdled with felons, many of whom were 

 ruined in government-schools of de- 

 pravity, or by the atrocious examples 

 of rulers ; and a multitude, which no 

 man can number,have suffered capital 

 punishments, or other punishments 

 equally horrible. 



These diflerent results are, in my 

 opinion, the natural fruits of the diffe- 

 rent species of policy. As every tree 

 is known by its fruit, there can be no 

 room to hesitate in pronouncing the 

 pacific policy of the Loo Choos to be 

 ffood, and the fighting policy of Chris- 

 tendom to be bad. What reason, then, 

 have the Christian nations to blush 

 and to tremble in view of their flagrant 

 apostacy from the very spirit of their 

 religion ! And how little reason have 

 they to boast of their civilization, while 

 savage war on their species is regarded 

 by them as the highway to " the 

 greatest of all glories \" or while " one 

 murder makes a villain, — millions a 

 hero !" 



Yours affectionately, 



Telemachus. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



RULES of the BRITISH COTTAGE SO- 



sociETY,/or the 'providing cottages 

 and LANDS for the USE of the la- 

 bouring POOR. 

 THE Society to consist of an unli- 

 mited number of members: any 

 person, male or female, having liberty 

 to become such by purchasing one or 

 more transferable shares. 



New shares always to be on sale, 

 and the price never to vary; but at 

 all times to be 5Z. each new share. 

 Fixed at that price to prevent fluctua- 

 tion, and to enable almost the whole 

 population of tiie kingdom to become 

 members, and thus have a stake in the 

 welfare of it. 



The Society to be managed by a 

 Court of Directors, chosen from the 

 members ; two to go out annually on 

 the first Thursday in March, and two 

 others to be elected on the same day 

 to fill their places. No female mem- 

 ber to have a right to vote at any of 

 the public meetings, nor any male 

 member, unless a holder of (twenty) 

 shares. 'I"he Directors to make an 

 annual report of the state of the So- 

 ciety. 



'I'hu annual profits to be divided into 

 nearly c'lual moieties ; one such moie- 



The whole of the lands purchased 

 by the Society to be divided into 

 allotments, — for spade husbandry,— 

 of from one to (five) acres each, to be 

 let to annual tenants not holding any 

 other lauds. 



Such persons as have been tenants 

 of this Society, and their widows, to be 

 entitled to annuities of not more than 

 five per cent, per annum on one quar- 

 ter of the rent they have paid the 

 Society. Thus a tenant, who has paid 

 10/. per annum for forty years, (being 

 400Z.) will be entitled to the interest 

 on lOOZ. — say bl. per annum, and so 

 in proportion. 



A committee of members to be 

 chosen, wherever an estate is pur- 

 chased, to correspond with the Court- 

 of Directors. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



Chi the MODE of PREVENTING SICKNESS 



at sea ; by T. forster, m.b. f.l.s. 



OBSERVING in a late number of 

 the Monthly Magazine, an inge- 

 nious letter on sickness at sea, I am 

 induced to add my own experience, 

 and a few remarks on that distressing 

 malady. I agree with your correspon- 

 dent, that it is peculiarity of motion 

 which causes the nausea and vomiting 

 so often felt in a moving vessel; but I 

 do not believe it depends altogether 

 on the proper motion of the ship, so 

 much as on a certain motion made by 

 the human body, induced by a sort of 

 almost involuntary endeavour to ac- 

 commodate one-self to the ship's mo- 

 tion. 1 first found this circumstance 

 out, by perceiving that persons who 

 held fast by the ropes or sides of the 

 ship, — so as to move with all its mo- 

 tions, and, in fact, make themselves 

 for the time, as it were, a part of the 

 moving vessel, — were less subject to 

 it than others who sat down at their 

 ease on a chair. I found also for-' 

 merly, before I became accustomed to 

 the sea, that 1 could keep off the evil 

 entirely by laying fast hold of the 

 rudder or sides of any boat in which 

 1 happened to be, on the very first in- 

 dication of nausea. 



When 



