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Hannah Lightfooi, the Fair Quaker , 
[Sept. 1. 
deuce that slie was the same quaker 
who lived at the corner of St. James’s- 
market, and was admired by Prince 
George ? 
4. Where was she carried off from in 
the coach and four ? 
5. Where and at what time was the 
law suit ? 
6. Did Mr. Bartlett succeed in his 
suit, and if not, why ? 
7* Is Mr. Bartlett living, add.where ? 
Brentforbiexsxs. 
Brentford) July Yltli. 1821. 
* jf * Another correspondent writes to the 
following effect :— 
Isaac Ax ford never cohabited with 
her. She was taken away from the 
church door the same day they were 
married, and he never heard of her af¬ 
terwards. 
Miss Chudieigh (the late Duchess of 
Kingston) was the agent employed to 
get Isaac to marry her, with a promise 
of a small sum of money. Isaac was 
then a shopman to Bolton, the grocer, 
on Lndgate Hill, and she lived with her 
father and mother at the corner of St. 
James's-market, and the King fre¬ 
quently saw her at the shop door as he 
drove by in going to and from Parlia¬ 
ment, &c. &c. 
A Mr. Ferryn. of Knightsbridge, was 
a relation of hers, and at his death left 
her forty pounds a year, which Isaac 
had. 
Axford presented a petition to the 
King himself about her, in the park, on 
his knees, as directed, but obtained but 
little redress. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I F any of your readers can and will 
answer the following query, they 
will contribute towards the accomplish¬ 
ment of an important scientific object. 
“What is tlie temperature (upon a 
monthly, weekly, or daily average, for 
the whole year) of Monterrey, on the 
NW. coast of America, or any place 
within five degrees of Monterrey; what 
is the temperature in the eastern parts 
of New Zealand ; of the island of Ota- 
lieite, or Eimeo ; of Accra, upon the 
Gold Coast; or of the country about 
the River Columbia; likewise upon the 
NW. coast of America ? If these ob¬ 
servations were stated in a detailed 
form, or if the height of the thermome¬ 
ter at different times of the day were 
noticed, it would be preferred. 
If any of your readers could furnish a 
memoir upon the harbours, bays, and 
rivers of New Zealand, it would* oblige 
many of your readers. Aftz. 
July 1th, 1821. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
On the PRACTICABILITY of ABOLISH¬ 
ING WAR. 
I T seems to have been long settled 
as an incontrovertible maxim, that 
war is now inevitable, and (hat all at¬ 
tempts to banish it from the earth are 
not only fruitless but extravagant. We 
are still told, that a state of warfare is 
even natural to man—that the experi¬ 
ence of all ages and nations, and the 
authority of all history, sacred and pro¬ 
fane, demonstrate that it is unavoid¬ 
able—that the true character of the hu¬ 
man face is only to be sought for in the 
records of their kind, and that as no 
age nor people have been exempt from 
this calamity, so it must decisively fol¬ 
low that it is inherent in our very na¬ 
ture, and is consequently irremediable. 
If, however, we .may he allowed to 
examine this maxim, so positively as¬ 
serted, and so generally allowed, we 
shall find great reason to doubt its sta¬ 
bility. Wars, on the contrary, in par¬ 
ticular instances, are frequently avoid¬ 
ed ; and it may be asserted, with truth, 
that there never was a war amongst 
civilized states, which by calm and 
temperate discussion might net have 
been prevented. In affairs, even of the 
highest importance, there is always a 
moment of decision, in which the metal 
yet glows on the anvil, and receives any 
form that is given to it. Wars depend 
uoon moral causes, and are influenced 
by moral considerations. The proof 
that wars have, in numerous cases, been 
avoided, affords a presumption that 
they might have been avoided in all, 
and cannot, therefore, be justly pro¬ 
nounced natural. Whether there shall 
be wars or not, depends upon the tem¬ 
per and dispositions of mankind, and 
the intellectual and moral attainments 
of those upon whom the decision may 
chance to rest. 
If we are asked how wars are to be 
prevented, let us ask how wars are ter¬ 
minated when they are once begun. Is it 
not by the calm and deliberate exercise 
of reason and prudence? And would not 
these have been much better employed 
in preventing the conflict, than in pub- 
ting an end to it after such a series of 
calamities had taken place? 
We have, indeed, a striking instance 
perpetually before our eyes, that the 
' most 
