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among the lower class of the Commercial Inhabitants 
too, than might otherwise be the case—were the honest 
and industrious emancitated from Idleness, in their 
pitiable stations on all the Roads around the town.” 
Mr. M. J. RETEMEYER offered, in 1837, a prize of 110 
guilders for a short treatise on the observance of Sunday, 
for general use and more especially for the labouring 
classes, Among other things it was to contain a warn- 
ing against attending the Sunday Market, what Managers, 
Masters and Mistresses and Labourers might do to pro- 
mote this end, and how works of necessity could be done. 
Three essays were received, but not one of them was 
thought worthy of the prize. 
In the Guiana Chronicle of Jan, 17th, 1840, is an ad- 
vertisement occupying a column and a half, which opens 
as follows :— | | 
“The Subscriber is desirous of Publishing, in the News- 
papers, a SERIES OF LETTERS that he has written on 
subjeéts which are enumerated in a subjoined list, which 
he is positive will be of the greatest possible benefit, not 
only to the British Government, but to the rising gene- 
ration, and to the rational and legitimate liberty of 
mankind in general. He is, therefore, under the urgent 
necessity of applying to the liberal feeling of a generous 
community, craving their assistance by a yearly Sub- 
scription of Six Dollars for each Subscriber, that, with 
what may be subscribed, he might be enabled to pay the 
Printers.” 
The ‘ Subscriber” was H. W. WELLS, the Swedep- 
borgian, a well-known charaéter, who every now and 
again managed to get a letter inserted in one of the 
papers, His list of subjeéts shews that the letters were 
