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tracts ol country by embankments from the sea. Better is it to 
engage in works of ostentatious convenience,-— better would it be 
for the state to build pyramids in honour of our Nelsons and Wel- 
lingtons, than tiiat men who have hands, and are willing to work, 
should hunger for want of employment. 
Things of this kiixl (and many such might be devised) are pal- 
liatives, which in this case are all that are required ; this part of 
the evil being but for a season. The radical evil can only be cured 
by a course of alteratives. ****** 
Reverting to immediate relief, as well as permanent good, why 
should not government extend its military and naval seminaries, 
so that every body who needed an asylum should know where to find 
©ne ? Would it not be better that the workhouses should empty 
themselves into our fleets and aimiies, than that they should pack 
off children by waggon-loads, to grow up in the stench and moral 
contagion of cotton mills while the trade flourishes, and to be 
thrown out of employ, and turned upon the public when it meets 
with any sudden revulsion ? Seminaries of this kind may be so con- 
ducted as to cost little more'^than well regulated workhouses. Boys 
become useful at sea a.t a very early age. There is no danger of 
overstocking ourselves with seamen ; in peace the merchant ser- 
vice will require all that the navy can dismiss, and in war we know 
what is suffered from the diflicuity of procuring hands. Train up 
children for the land and sea service, instruct them too in their 
moral and religious duties, encourage them by honorary rewards, 
pension them off after they have served as many years as their 
country ought to require : they will love the service ; and the arts 
of our enemies will be as unavailing as their arms. For the sur- 
'|)Iu3 of an army, when war shall be at an end, there is indeed no 
such immediate employment as would be offered for our seamen ; 
but the same means which would, above all others, tend to pro 
mote the power and security of Great Britain, would provide an 
©utlet for this redundance also. 
Ths subject of foreign trade puts me in mind of the folloyving strange Jei? 
d’ esprit of the Me Professor Forsois'. 
triE DEVIL’S WALK. 
From his brimstone bed at the break of day ., 
A walking the Devil has gone 3 
To visit his snug li ttle farm of the earth. 
And see how his stock goes on. 
Andover the hill, and over the dale, 
And he rambled over the plain $ 
And backward and forward he switcht his long tail, 
As a gentleman switches his cane. 
And I prykbee friend, how was the Devil drest ? 
Oh ! he was in his Sunday’s best : 
His coat was red, his breeches were blue. 
With a hole behind which his tail went through^ 
He saw a lawyer killing a viper 
On a dunghill near his own stable ; 
And the Devil was tickled, for it put him in mind 
Of Ccdn and his brother Abel. 
