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very maste?’s power to give what kinds of work he pleases, to his ser-: 
vants in trade; of consequence his opportunity to opprefs some and 
raise up others, who may have cringed in order to curry favour, is 
great: and I am sorry to add, this power, by the vain or the wicked 
master, is oftety abused.’’ He then uses many mofal arguments to 
difsuade them from following such a ptactise. But where a man is 
so wicked as deliberately to adopt such an iniquitows practice, argu- 
ments drawn from the beauty of moral rectitude will probably be lit- 
tle regarded. I would therefore add that few things can more di- 
rectly tend to hurt the master’s own interest. An unjust conduct is 
soon observed, and rever fails to. procure the ill will of the injured 
person, and the contempt alike of him and the person who profits by 
the partiality ; none of them, therefore can ever have his interest at 
heart, and the difference that is between the forced services of one 
who secretly despises his master, and the cordial alacrity of one whe 
esteems him, is infinite. 
There is another evil however that too often is experienced by ap- 
ptentices respecting masters, that this corresponde:t has totally over- 
Jooked. It is the carelefsnefs with:-which.the masters too aften in- 
Struct their apprentices in their respective vocations, and. even the 
care with which some of them conceal the most important secrets of 
their businefs from their apprentices, from a jealousy that they may 
come to rival themselves-in businefs. This is such. a direct breach of 
one of the most sacred confidential compacts, asto daserve the severest 
punifhment of the law wherever it can be proved; for it is a species of 
robbery committed upon a hélplefs individual under trust ; and is of 
a. nature infinitely more atrocious ‘than that of robbing on thé high- 
way. Thisis an evil which is. now become very common, espe 
cially in businefses where high apprentice fees are paid that it well 
deserves to be adverted to. : 
_ The following effusion, called a reveree of a ci-devant, (that is 
gentle Englith reader, a late) country. dorzize, (I follow the ae 
is given verbatim. 
' “ Latin is, on all hands, considered as the handmaid of science in. 
the three liberal piofefsions. It has the sanction of antiquity orf 
jtsside; and it still continues to be the favourite language of the 
jearnedin Europe. It pofsefses a beauty and an energy peculiar to 
itself. With irresistible force it strikes the mind, and leaves impref- 
sions which the hand of time cannot efface. At the court of Augus 
tus; the patron of learned merit, Latin was:both spoken and writtest 
