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fault in themfelves, afrog-intly load tliofe with reproach w; 

 are futfering by their ignorance, indolence, and pride *. 



of Glafgow is not to be ranked among this number. This 

 gentleman, the worthy correfpondent and colleague in benefi- 

 cence and bufinefs with Mr Dempder, pitying the hard lot of 

 the poor emigrants who were put back to GreenocI:, on their 

 paflage to America, has prevailed on more than loO out of 300, 

 almofl: the whole that were not indented, to go to his cotton works 

 in the neighbourhood- of Glafgow. Had this been the tirft in- 

 ftance of Mr Dale^s beneficence, 1 fhould perhaps have taken 

 feme merit to myfelf for having given the hint ; but his mind 

 is too enlightened and humane to require any fuch ftimulus ; 

 and I make no doubt but lie will foon experience the good 

 effeds of this wife policy. How different the condudt of this 

 man, and that of thofe who bend their chief endeavours to 

 wrell: the- pittance from the hand of induftry, ai;4 to d'ive the 

 bed fubjefts of the ftate to fcek for refuge, from the cppreflbr, 

 elfewhere I 



* "What is here faid applies to the political governors and 

 legidatorsof this kinedom, and not to any clafs of the inhabi- 

 tants themfelves. Thefe legiflators multiply abfurd laws, that 

 tend to cramp every attempt at exertion. They thus deprive 

 them of the means of yielding any revenue, and then fquander 

 the money that others have contributed for the ufe of the ftate, 

 in trying to fqueeze from them what they have not to give, 

 nor can have, while this fyftem is adhered to. Whole regi- 

 ments of people are kept in pay, watching, as it would fcenx 

 to an intelligent obferver, with the utraoft anxiety, to prevent 

 them from ever having it in their power to benefit the com- 

 munity to which they belong. It is impoflible for contempt 

 for fuch foilv, to fupprefs the indignation that fuch atrocity cf 

 cor.dudt muft excite ! 



