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•which cither gratifies our avarice, our tafte for illegi- 

 timate pleafure, our ambition, or our revenge, we im- 

 prove with avidity the infernal occafion, till at lafl we 

 fall the viftims of our own infatuation, and fufFer the 

 miferies which we have inflifted. Domitian and Cali- 

 gula did net arrive at the height of their atrocity all at 

 once. *' Is thy fervant, a dog, fuid Hazael, to the 

 prophet that he ftiould do thefe things." 



But I fear I have dwelt Doo long on a fubjecl, though 

 in itfelf interefting, and (hall therefore conclude withfub- 

 fcribing myfelf, Your inofl: humble fer^'ant, 



Adam Eard-Apple. 



On Imprisonment. 

 Of all the evils to which mankind are fubje£ted in their 

 perigrinations in this world, perhaps thofe which re- 

 fult from imprifonment are the mod deplorable. Bo- 

 dily pain, when it becomes exceflive, muft foon be ter- 

 minated by death. Sicknefs, while it weakens the hu- 

 man frame, deadens the fenfes, and mitigates that dif- 

 trefs to the fufFerer, which afflicts thofe who behold it. 

 ]n the fame manner, almoft every other evil brfngs 

 with it a natural remedy, which tends to alleviate dif- 

 trefs. The very fympathy that nature irrefiflibly ex- 

 torts from every perfon who beholds another in diftrefs, 

 affords a healing balm that tends to adminifter comfort 

 to the afflifted. But from the folitary prifoner, every 

 kind of thing that could adminifter comfort is withdrawn. 

 Confined in a dungeon, out of the fight of every per- 

 fon, he becomes dead to fociety, while ftill alive to the 

 anguifh of life. He is forgot by the perfon who con- 

 fined him ; and in confequence of that forgetfulnefs, is 

 fuffered to fpend whole years perhaps in agonizing dif- 

 trefs, which the perfon who ihut him up could not 

 have tolerated, could he but fee it for one hour. It 

 is with juftlce then that all nations have exalted their 



