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sions that harden and disgrace the 
heart, are unknown to them; their 
minds are equally as amiable, as their 
features; and being essentially good, it 
is aninvariable maxim with them, that, 
however costly the sacrifices to virtue 
may be, the pleasure of performing a 
virtuous action can scarcely be pur- 
chased toodear. Such is the strength 
of lungs in this island, that the inhabi- 
tants can make themselves heard at 
the distance of half a league, and 
sometimes sufficiently distinct for car- 
rying on a conversation. Most of the 
islanders travel, and there is not a 
single family that have not some mem- 
bers of it abroad; however, such is 
their love of country, that they invari- 
ably return. ‘Their barren ungrateful 
island they prefer to the richest and 
most flourishing countries; so that, 
whenever they have acquired a compe- 
tence, they finally return to settle, and 
either purchase more ground than they 
had, or improve what they have; hence 
the constant high price of land. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE public have heard, through 
the channel of your valuable and 
extensive Magazine, quite enough 
about the ‘‘ Fair Quaker.” Your last 
correspondent, T. G. H. has given you 
many particulars, but he says no- 
thing of her marriage to Isaac Axford; 
and, as I began the debate, it is the 
etiquette with members of a certain 
great house, that I should be indulged 
with a summing up, by way of reply, 
and so iake a closure of the dis- 
cussion. 
It is certain that the fair Quaker’s 
name was Hannah Whitefoot, and not 
Wheeler. I shewed to Axford’s own 
niece, only yesterday, the account 
given by T,G.H. She admits all that 
he says about the situation of the shop, 
and the way that Prince George got a 
sight of her, in his frequent visits to 
the Opera-House, To put a stop to 
these visits was the recson of getting 
her to be married to Axford, who had 
paid her some attentions while he was 
shopman at a grocer’s en Ludgate- 
hill. Mrs. S. his niece, told me yes- 
terday, that after they married they 
cohabited for a fortnight or three 
weeks, when one day she was sud- 
denly called out from dinner, and put 
into a chaise-and-four, and taken off; 
and he never saw her afterwards. Mrs. 
S. says it was reported that the Prince 
The Fair Quaker.—Prevention of Contagion. 
[Sept. 1, 
had several children by her, one or 
two of whom became generals in the 
army. 
When Axford, many years after, 
married a second wife, and it was re- 
ported that Hannah was still living, 
the late Lord Weymouth, on enquiry, 
asserted that she was not then living. 
Warminster ; July 5. H. W. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE malady that has, for the last 
few months, existed epidemically 
in the south of Spain, has excited the 
sympathy of Europe; and the noble 
deyotion of the French physicians, 
who, for the sake of humanity and 
science, volunteered to encounter the 
dangers of that ill-fated district, form 
a splendid instance of well-directed 
zeal and generous self-devotion. 
The late Dr. Johnstone, of Kidder- 
minster, first called the attention of 
the public to the use of fumigations, 
as a means of checking the progress 
of fevers considered to be contagious. 
After an interval of many years had 
elapsed, Dr. Carmichael Smyth took 
up the subject, and the progress of 
modern chemistry enabled him to 
pursue his investigations much far- 
ther than his predecessor in the same 
field. So completely, indeed, did he 
seem to have succeeded, and so great 
the boon bestowed on society by his 
labours, as to call for a national remu- 
neration. The Parliamentary grant, 
thus bestowed on a worthy and de- 
serving individual, was perhaps the 
most useful result of his discovery. 
To prevent the propagation of con- 
tagious and infectious diseases, to 
confine those desolating visitations, 
and to disarm them of much of their 
malignity, I would propose three me- 
thods,—ventilation, attention to clean- 
liness, and avoiding the fomites of the 
disease. : 
1. That ventilation is a most im-. 
portant means cf diluting and weaken- 
ing the effect of noxious effluvia, is. 
very obvious. This should not be at- 
tended to only in the chambers and 
dwellings of the sick, but also in the 
construction of streets and cities. It 
is well known that the yellow-fever 
exerts much of its malignant and de- 
structive operation where the air is 
confined by narrow streets, in crowd- 
ed and ill-ventilated habitations, and in 
the trequeutly-respired and impure at-_ 
mosphere of hospitals. All these causes, 
. are 
