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tion of the parent state, and some 
other points, which we were not aware 
were disputed, except by mere tyros 
in political science.. We do not, how- 
ever, concur in all the reasoning of 
the reviewer, nor do we entirely agree 
with those who contend, that in no 
case ought the employment of capital 
and industry to be an object of legisla- 
tive interference. So far, perhaps, as 
the mere augmentation of wealth is 
concerned, the entire freedom of com- 
merce would be most advantageous ; 
but the welfare of states does not de- 
pend so much on the accumulation of 
capital, as its distribution, and the 
employment of population in those 
branches of industry most conducive 
to social happiness and national inde- 
pendence. In the particular case of 
our West-India is!ends, we apprehend, 
the principle of a free trade might be 
beneficially introduced. It is true 
such a system would probably abridge 
the market of Ireland for salt provi- 
sions, and that of Scotland for linens 
and cottons: but still, if our colonial 
possessions be a valuable appendage 
to the empire, they mast be valuable 
in proportion to their wealth and re- 
sources; and these wou!d certainly be 
most augmented by throwing open to 
them the markets, in which they could 
sell at the dearest, and purchase at the 
cheapest rate. To this argument we 
do not see how the reviewer can reply. 
Though the style of this review, me- 
chanically considered, continues good, 
yet its principles are anti-British, its 
spirit is bad wherever any social feel- 
ing is introduced, its general tone is 
alien to every principle of civil liberty, 
and it is now the chief engine of that 
system which has undermined our free 
constitution, and carried misery and 
bankruptcy to almost every industri- 
ous fire-side in these once-flourishing 
islands. The support which it receives 
is however a proof that many deluded 
persons have not yet suffered enough, 
and that successive plagues are neces- 
sary to change the hearts ‘of all obsti- 
nate governors, as well as those of 
Pharaoh and his Egyptians. Money 
will always purchase advocates, and it 
is not to be wondered that those who 
profit by abuses and corruption should 
avail themselves of their wealth and 
power to purchase a cheap defence of 
their possessions, by the agency of un- 
principled’ writers; and henee ‘the 
perverted talent which too often ap- 
pears in this journal, 
Mr. Taylor on a Plagiarism of Pope. 
[June |, 
To the Bilitor of the Monthly, Magazine. 
BI Rasp 10. a201?: ebsodotreinie 
| eae at... present,.engaged .in 
translating into English’ the . Py- 
thagoric Political Fragments, and also 
some Ethical Fragments of Hieroeles, 
preserved by Stobeeus, ¥ fuund'in the Tat- 
ter of these a passage so conformable 
to the following beautiful lines’ in 
Pope’s ‘‘Essay on Man,” that’ it’ is 
most probably the source: fron» whith 
they were derived; and, a8 I ‘bave'no 
doubt of the readers of your! Magazine 
being of the same opinion, I send it to 
you for insertion. The lines of Pope 
are these :— g bol 
“*Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, 
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, 
The centre mov’d, a circle straight succeeds, 
Another still, and still another spreads,— 
Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, 
His country next, and next all human race; 
Wide and more wite, th’ o’erflowings of the mind 
Take ev’ry creature in of ev’ry kind.” 
The following is the passage jin 
Hieroeles, the celebrated: comnientator 
on the Pythagoric Golden Verses:— | 
Orme yug Exesog MpuLYy O1OV RUMADIE \AOANOL¢ 
TEQLYEYLUTTUL* TOLL LEY TLAbXEOTELIIG, TOKE oe puter, 
% TOS (AB TEELEXOUTL, TOIS) del TEpLEYoLKEVOICS KieTe, 
wag Ciedecoug x aviotug.mgo eddsious CX ETH. 
TEWTOS pty You 87 TL KUKAOG  meoTEYysEAlauToE, GI 
@UTOS Tig neBeurreg TEgh AT EV PM tauTov YELM Tas 
Sheeyoscey 3 ey @ XUKAD TO TE Twpaee MEpley ETH, 4 
TO CWeeTOS EVEKCE TeupELAyApXeVeL” oxetay es 
Beayurarreg x puixpou Sey cevray medrtinfopéves 
MEyT ZOU KURDS ouTOG, devTEgos de aT leroverns) * 5 
THEY (LEY eebiotwe TOU HEyTEOUy -MEglexY VE Toy, 
MOWTO, EY O TET CY ToL YOVELS, CCENPOLyy yUIM, Treesbany 
0 Sano rouTuy Tete, Vw SHO nd Tide, mem gE 
6 Tire, & aderpuy meudec, eT dialed ia Tov, 
Toug addrovG Teg Wy TUYyAES. TIUTw epetnc, 9 
Tey Cyoray, % ET aUTOY 0 TH QuAETAY, HOO 
momma, o Setwratw x preyioros, TEDEYuY Te 
MeUyTee TONG RUXAOUC, 0 TOY TeyTOs. CORUM yeRe. 
That is,—“ For, in short, each of us is, as 
it were, circumscribed by many’ circles; 
some of which are less, but others larger, 
and some comprehend, but others:are 
comprehended, according to the different 
and unequal habitudes with respect. to 
each other, For the first. indeed; ,and 
most proximate circle, is that which every 
one describes about his own mind as a 
centre; in which circle the body, and 
whatever is assumed for the sake of the 
body, are comprehended. For this. is 
nearly the smallest circle, and ‘almost 
touches the centre itself.’ The’ second 
from this, and which is at a greater dis- 
tance from the centre, but comprehends 
the first circle, is that im which: parents, 
brothers, wife, and children, are-arranged, 
The third circle from the centre,)is.that 
which contains uncles and aunts; grand- 
fathers and grandmothers, and the children 
of brothers and sisters. After this, is the 
circle which comprehends the remaining 
relatives. 
