179'' POLITICAL USES OF BAB HEALTff. 317 



For the Bee. 



"thoughts on the great Bpnpfit to he derived from IVunt 

 of Health. 



Mr. Bee, 



I DO not mean here to fpeak as a moralift or divine ; 

 I confider my fubjecl merely in a civil and political 

 light. 



The benefits that accrue from had health in high life, 

 are fo various and important, that without it I do not 

 fee how people of that defcription could exilt at all, 

 A minifter finds it neceffary to go out of place, becaufe 

 he cannot be permitted longer to hold it ; but he only- 

 retires, becaufe of the precarious fate of his health. A 

 Nobleman has run hinjfelf in debt ; his rents are fe- 

 queftrated ; he cannot afford to live at home ; he goes 

 abroad nierelyyor the recovery of his health. A man 

 is afraid -of meeting with ofTicious perfons in the ftreet, 

 who will infift on providing him with lodgings ; to a- 

 void thefe, he is confined to his cliamber through iiidif 

 pofition. A lady whofe fliape has met with an untime- 

 ly diftortion, retires to the country for fome months, 



Jor the recovery of her health. In thefe, and a thou- 

 Inncl other inllances, this apology ferves to keep peo- 

 ple of failiion in countenance, when they would h^ve 

 been otherwife at a great lofs. To them, therefore, bad 

 health is often extremely convenient. 



In lower fpheres, as people can more feldom afford 

 to be in bad health, it is not indeed of fuch extenfive 



. utility, as to the others ; but ftill it has its ufes. A 

 particular cafe of this fort having lately occurred to 

 myfelf, I fliall beg leave to ftate it to you, as a fpeci- 



