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in the present number we have three 
articles devoted toimportant questions 
of public economy, all of great ability, 
and not less distinguished for the 
sound principles they inculcate, than 
for the valuable statistical information 
with which they are illustrated, and 
which can be found in no other pub- 
lication. 
The nintharticle, Malaria, is medical, 
relating to the Walcheren fever, mias- 
ma, sciatica, teoth-ach, rheumatism, 
head-ache, and other bodily inflictions. 
We suspect the alarming intelligence 
about malaria prevailing in Bridge- 
street, St. James’s-park, Finsbury- 
square, and Whitechapel, is merely a 
ruse de guerre of the reviewer, intend- 
ed to locate his observations nearer 
home, as his subject is rather remote, 
being a ‘Memoir of Signor Broechi 
dell’ aria di Roma negli antichi tempi.” 
Tonbridge School forms the tenth and 
last article, and is apparently intended 
to keep alive public attention on the 
important subject of charitable abuses, 
which Mr, Brougham did himself so 
much honour in dragging to light. In 
the case of 'Tonbridge, itis well known 
that the funds, for a series of years, 
have been misapplied by the Skinner's 
Company; and the quesiion now is, 
the most advantageous mode of em- 
ploying the revenues of the charity, 
amounting to four or five thousand 
pounds a-year, with a certainty of fu- 
ture augmentation ; besides arrears of 
post-r ents, amounting at least to twen- 
ty thousand pounds. In the applica- 
tion of the funds, we do not concur in 
the suggestion of Mr. Prinsep, of esta- 
blishing a great school on the plan of 
Eton and Westminster ; these founda- 
tions are themselves the seat of gross 
abuses, and certainly any extension 
of their principle would ill accord with 
the state of knowledge and the wants 
of the community. The whole ques- 
tion, however, of charitable abuses, 
like many others, will never receive an 
adequate corrective, without a pre- 
vious change in the representation of 
the people. 
Having already expressed our ap- 
probation of the present number, we 
have nothing to add in conclusion. It 
is manifestly superior to some of its 
late predecessors ; and we doubt not, 
that, if the future numbers be brought 
out with similar ability, the Edinburgh 
Review will soon re-gain whatever 
ground it may have lost in public 
estimation. 
The Social Economist, No. I. ° 
[Aug. l, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
THE SOCIAL ECONOMIST. 
NO. I. 
[It formed a part of the original design of 
this Miscellany, and has never since 
been lost sight of, in compiling the fifty- 
three volumes to which it has extended, 
to contribute in every way to the pro- 
motion of the social happiness of man- 
kind, by diffusing early and explicit 
intelligence of every new discovery, or 
nsefil adoption or improvement, in 
those arts which conduce to the use, 
convenience, or comfort, of our species, 
whether congregated in magnificent and 
crowded cities, in large manufacturing 
country towns, or in villages or houses 
of the husbandmen and labourers. In 
furtherance of this design, the Editor 
feels enabled, by the great diversity and 
extent of the talent by which his la- 
bours are assisted, to commence a 
series of papers, under the title of THE 
Socrtat Economist; one of which wilt 
appear in most of the succeeding num- 
bers. ] 
Bored Springs or Artificial Fountains 
obtained by Boring the Earth. 
N some late Numbers we called 
the attention of the public to the 
successful experiments reeently made 
at.'Tottenham, and in some villages 
adjacent, in Essex, to obtain constant 
supplies of water by boring to certain 
depths in the earth. In our Magazine 
for May 1805, vol. 19, p.368, we gave 
some particulars of a patent obtained 
by Mr. James Ryan, fur boring for wa- 
ter; and at sundry times we have in- 
troduced various notions on the sub- 
ject, conceiving it to be of the greatest 
consequence to society. 
It seems, by a late account publish- 
ed by Mr. Robinson, in his ‘‘ History 
of Tottenham,” that within the me- 
mory of several inhabitants of Totten- 
ham High-Cross, Middlesex, it was a 
universal complaint, that no good wa- 
ter was to be had in the village. The 
wells were only a few feet deep, the 
supply of water was uncertain, and it 
Was not pure enough for domestic 
purposes. The wells reached only to 
the blue clay, and therefore their depth 
depended on that of the superstratum, 
namely, of the gravel or loam lying 
upon it. But, within the last forty 
years, the complaint of the badness of 
the water has been effectually removed 
in many placesin the parish, and might 
be so inall. The clay, from the surface 
of which the water was formerly obtain- 
ed, and to which it is nearly impervi- 
ous, has been pierced through in many 
parts, which has afforded anever-failing 
supply 
