322 Utter from Juridicus. May t. 



Humanity is such an amiable virtue as none but a 

 brute would venture to oppose its dic;:ates. " None 

 but barbarians could think of insulting the unfortu- 

 nate : — The poor man who lived at the rate of a thou- 

 sand pounds a-year ; what Ihall be allowed him now \ 

 The most obdurate heart cannot think two or three; 

 hundred too much. Even with this, what a sad re- 

 Tcrse !" Such is the language held out to meetings on 

 similar occasions ; and thus it comes^ that the man 

 who enters life, without any reasonable prospect of 

 ever having one hundred pounds a-year to live upon, 

 acquires a right- to three times the sum, by the hu- 

 manity of those very persons, many of whose families 

 he has reduced to the most abject misery. 



It is very hard, indeed, if the man who has acted" 

 this part cannot, moreover, find one friend in whom he' 

 can confide, for kindly lending his covering aid to help 

 him to some future provision, which ftiall secure to His 

 family a more permanent establilhment than that 

 which his narrow circumstances, and his little expe- 

 rience of the woild, rendered practicable at first. 

 For some time, indeed, if he is a cautious man, he lies 

 bye, seemingly contenting himself with the slender 

 allowance that has been allotted to him. But bye 

 and bye, he begins to enter into new enterprises, con- 

 ducted with greater caution, indeed, than before, and 

 on somewhat difi^erent principles, because he has now 

 something to lose. He gradually extends his transac- 

 tion;, more and more, — acquires a character for judi- 

 ciousnefs in businefs, that must insure succefs ; by 

 this means he usually acquires property before his 

 death, that entitles his son to become a competitor 



