1822.] 
In the first instance, value is said 
to depend on the power of commanding 
the necessaries and conveniences of life ; 
in the second, on the wants of man- 
hind. At the conclusion, we learn, 
that Mr. Malthus differs from Mr. 
Ricardo, on the cost of production de- 
termining the value of commodities. 
' M. Say differs from all the pre- 
eeding writers, and makes value con- 
Sist in utility ; his translator in utility 
and difficulty of attainment. But the 
reader, we apprehend, has had enough ; 
and probably thinks the economists 
had better have exemplified some 
of their favourite principles on the 
utility of a division of labour, and left 
the defining of words to the proper 
- authorities,—the makers of dictiona- 
ries. The word wealth is handled in 
a similar manner, and exhibits similar 
disagreements and inconsistencies ; 
and this must ever be the case when 
the standard of language is departed 
from ; and each writer, instead of em- 
ploying words in the sense usage has 
sanctioned, affixes to them a meaning 
of his own invention. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
FURTHER DETAILS relative to the FAIR 
QUAKER. 
HE enquiry respecting the “ fair 
Quaker,” who was mistress to the 
late King, appearing to interest many 
of your readers; and observing, in 
page 518 of your last volume, a ques- 
tion put by your correspondent T. G. 
H. whether the maiden name of Mrs. 
H., the alledged procuress in this case, 
was not Lightfoot? I am desirous of 
answering that question in the nega- 
tive, and to state, that Mrs. H.’s 
maiden name was Ann R****n, and 
that when young she was called 
Nancy R.: she had a_ brother, who 
since has been in considerable busi- 
ness, near London, as a cooper. 
1 am unacquainted with her father’s 
history, but knew a family in town, de- 
scended from her mother’s sister, whom 
f have heard say, that the mother of 
Mrs. H. of the glass-shop, was one of 
the sisters of Mr. Samuel M*****n, a 
respectable Quaker, who resided in 
Swallow-street, and latterly had also a 
house at Stockwell. 
The family alluded to appeared to 
consider Mrs. H. as a handsome wo- 
man, much given to dress and gaiety ; 
but they seem to have had no know- 
ladge of her alledged intrigue in Mr. 
W heeler’s family; nor, as far as I can 
Further Details respecting the Fair Quaker. 
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recollect, did they appear to know the 
name or connexions of the royal mis- 
tress, of whom I remember having 
heard them speak, according to the 
public report, as a Quaker’s daughter, 
unknown to the public and them. 
The H.’s in the present glass-shop 
are not descended from Nancy R. as 
she died without issue. Whether she 
was educated as a Quaker, and so 
gained the confidence of the Wheeler’s 
family, 1 am unable to state; but it 
may not perhaps be altogether irrele- 
vant to the present enquiry to mention, 
that, Nancy R.’s father and mother 
both dying while she was young, she 
was a good deal noticed by her uncle 
M. which possibly, through the ge- 
neral acquaintance in Quaker fami- 
lies, may have led to hex introduction 
at Mr. Wheeler’s. She was at one 
period often at her uncle’s house, as a 
eompanion of his only daughter, who 
afterwards married Mr. L. a Quaker; 
and, supposing that Mr. 'T. G. H. is 
correct, as to the spirit of intrigue by 
which Mrs. H. was actuated, this inti- 
macy may perhaps have led to a pro- 
jected elopement of Miss M. with an 
officer, which her father fortunately 
discovered, when on the very. point of 
being carried into effect; though with- 
out his seeing reason to suspect his 
niece of being a party thereto, as far 
as I have heard. 
May not Prince George have had 
more than one Quaker-mistress? and 
the names of Lightfoot and of Wheeler 
both have been correctly mentioned 
with relation thereto. A. B. 
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Hor the Monthly Magazine.. 
MANNERS of the MODERN PERSIANS and 
TURKS described, and a COMPARISON 
of the PERSIANS with the TURKS; in a 
LETTER from a MODERN TRAVELLER. 
N commercial transactions the Turk 
is just, and rarely breaks his word : 
the Persian barters his oath like any 
other commodity. We read in Plato 
and Herodotus, that the ancient Per- 
sians had a horror of lying: how much 
their descendants have degenérated ! 
The Persians of the present day ‘are 
the most lying people upon earth. 
They are accustomed in:their infancy 
to dissimulate, to reply pertly when 
they are called to account or repri- 
manded, and to get out of a serape by 
means of subterfuges: every He is 
blameless in their eyes which tends to 
their interest. The dogmas of their 
sect. authorize them to dissemble 
and 
