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tions, and to strengthen and diffuse the 
virulence and intolerance of both. 
Neither do I despair of conciliating the 
damuatory intolerance of the Bigendian 
creed, with the dull, unvarying, cla- 
morous prayers of the Littlendians, and 
the naked, barn-like temples of the 
Middlezonians, in which I shall order 
to be stowed a number of putrescent 
carcases. in order to render them un- 
wholesome and offensive, and to make 
their social worship a weekly tribute 
to self-denial. 
Surely (objected I,) this form of 
government, after all, may prove fa- 
vourable to agriculture? To defeat 
this, I will allot (replied he,) to the 
bonzes yearly a large share of the crop, 
and thus diminish the motive to make 
it great.—It may prove favourable (I 
also contended.) to personal liberty and 
security ? Youare much mistaken, (he 
again said); whenever the clubs are 
odious to the people, they will assume a 
power of arbitrary imprisonment, and 
this, believe me, will be often enough. 
Besides, it will be easy to subject all per- 
sons who hire money, or other things, 
to arrest; and to institute an order of 
land-pirates, or water-butchers, to seize 
young folks forcibly, to the habitual 
alarm and distress of all obscure and 
peaceable families. 
Are you not then afraid (said I,) lest 
the people, before they have undergone 
this government for three years, should 
throw it aside in a pet? No, (replied 
he, after deliberating awhile.) for al- 
though it will successively be the in- 
terest of each other of society to abolish 
this constitution, it will never at any 
one time be the interest of them all; 
so that, like the Gehenna, it combines 
extreme infliction and incalculable 
duration. 
Farewell, (said I, somewhat sourly 
to Adelolmi,) and thank heaven that 
I was born in Britain, whose govern- 
ment was not imagined by the spite of 
a philosopher, but is the work of ages, 
and the wonder of the world. 
—>— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SEND for insertion in your valu- 
able magazine, a plan for gradually 
superseding the poor’s rates. No one 
is to receive any benefit till he or she has 
subscribed ten years, in which time they 
will have paid six pounds, which will 
produce a sufficient fund to allow them 
a support in old age, continually receiv- 
ing something after the ten years, and 
increasing with their disability to sup- 
port themselves ; the first few divisious 
Plan of Provision for Poverty. 
[March 1, 
that might be made will not possibly be 
sufficient to pay their annual subscrip- 
tion of 12s. ; but this will be gradually 
overcome, and it will in the course of 
time be more than sufficient. 
Rules of the Friendly Union for pro- 
viding for the Members in Old Age. 
and for reducing the Poor Rates. 
1. This society always to be open to new 
members at any monthly meeting. The 
members to subscribe one shilling per 
month each. 
2. The whole of the subscriptions, after 
paying necessary expences, to be placed 
out at interest in the Savings Bank, or such 
other securities as might be approved of. 
3. The interest to accumulate for the 
first ten years, after which the interest (on 
such subscriptions and accumulations and 
also the interest on all further subscrip- 
tions) to be divided quarterly, as follows : 
all those members who have paid ten years, 
at such division, and still continue their 
subscriptions, to have one share; twenty 
years, two shares; thirty years, four 
shares; forty years, eight shares; and 
fifty years and upwards, twelve shares each. 
4. Members neglecting to pay their 
subscriptions three months, to forfeit one 
shilling; six months, two shillings; nine 
months, three shillings ; twelye months, to 
be expelled. 
. 5. A committee of six members shall be 
chosen, who shall continue such as long 
as they continue members, with power to 
add to their number any other member of 
the society or any gentleman willing to 
become a member. 
6. A clerk shall also be chosen, who 
shall attend at his own house, or any other 
place that might be approved of, on the 
first Monday in every month fromthe hours 
of six to eight in the evening, to assist the 
committee in receiving the subscriptions. 
7. At the death of any member who has 
paid three years to this society, two pounds 
shall be allowed out of the fund towards 
his or her funeral expences ; if five years, 
three pounds shall be allowed. 
8. No other relief shall be afforded to 
any member than is mentioned in the pre- 
ceding rules, nor shall the funds of the 
society be ever divided or diminished, but 
be allowed to accumulate for the mutual 
benefit of the old members and their suc- 
cessors. 
You will perceive when a person 
who has paid ten years receives one 
guinea per annum, the one who has 
paid fifty years will receive twelve 
guineas; so when a person who has 
paid ten years or six pounds, receives 
three guineas, which in time will be 
the case, the person who has paid fifty 
years, will receive thirty-six guineas 
per annum, and so on in proportion. 
Joie Oe: > 
