296 Such Attentions likely to be repaid 



mean time, Mr. Wynne has made a beginning ; 

 and in proving that it is not impracticable to 

 better the condition of the industrious and de- 

 serving, he has already effected much. The 

 noblest use of fortune is the power of conferring 

 happiness. I have seen nothing which has 

 afforded me a gratification equal to the exami- 

 nation of this establishment. May it not rea- 

 sonably be anticipated, that by placing the 

 lower classes in comfortable habitations, the 

 minds of the present race will in some degree 

 become emancipated from their former grovel- 

 ling notions? and that the rising generation, 

 accustomed to the comforts of cleanliness and 

 regularity, will acquire habits more likely to be 

 improved than speedily abandoned ? Will these 

 not be looking up to the attainment of that in- 

 dependence which they will early be taught 

 awaits industry and exertion? Will they not 

 be indisposed to settle themselves for life, with- 

 out a fair prospect of retaining a continuance 

 of those comforts to which from their earliest 

 youth they have been accustomed? and thus,, 

 is it not likely, that to a certain extent, the ex- 

 cessive population of the country may be re- 

 strained. 



The correction of long-settled and inveterate 

 habits must proceed gradually. It requires not 



