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252 on schoolmasier’s salaries. June 28- 
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‘Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 
J osszrve in the fourth number of the present volume of 
the Bee, page 134, a letter from a country schoolmaster, 
complaining of the smallnefs of the income of that clafs of 
literary labourers in this country, and suggesting the pro- 
priety of augmenting their salaries. As I imagine many 
well disposed persons, who have not reflected. maturely on 
the subject, will be inclined to concur in opinion with 
that writer, as I myself once did, I use the freedom 
to transmit to you a printed paper on this subject, that 
was handed about some years ago, when this question was: 
agitated in parliament, and I trust your impartiality will 
induce you to publifh it, for the information of all con- 
cerned. I fancy few of your readers have seen it, and I 
reckon myself fortunate in being able to furnifh you with 
a copy of it for preservation in your useful miscellany, 
which I hope will descend to future ages. It contains: 
a full answer to the letter of your correspondent above na- 
med; and ought, besides, to serve asa useful caveat, a- 
gainst being hastily misled by false reasoning, to which alt 
mankind are naturally prone, where humanity is interested: 
in the question. A—c—z. 
Remarks on the petition to parliament, by the schoolmasters in: 
Scotland, for an augmentation of their salaries anno 1784. 
“ Wrrnour entering into a discufsion of the nature of the 
arguments adduced in support of this preposal; or an 
examination of the propriety of the mode of procedure: 
they have adopted; or an inquiry into the effects that 
would be produced on the different bodies of men from 
whom the money wanted must be taken, if the prayer of 
the petition were complied with; or a consideration of 
