1821.] Hannah Lightfoot , 
Population, which is the foundation 
of the greatness of a country, if carried 
to too high a point, may occasion its 
decline, but a decline can never be 
brought on by that cause, so long as 
labour can be found to employ, and 
food to nourish the inhabitants. 
As a vast number of persons cm- 
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ployed in useful pursuits read your 
Magazine, I think I cannot promulgate 
this idea so well by any other channel. 
If the idea is a good one, some of your 
readers will no doubt appreciate it, and 
if none of them do, I shall think there 
is some defect in it th at I do not see. 
London , Aug. 11. W. Playfair. 
ANCIENT TEMPLE OF BEAL-AGH, 
County of Down, Ireland . 
SECTION. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
FURTHER PARTICULARS of HANNAH 
LIGHTFOOT, the FAIR QUAKER. 
ANNAH LIGHTFOOT, when 
residing with her father and 
mother, was frequently seen by the 
king when he drove by in going to and 
from the Parliament House. She 
eloped in 1754, and was married to 
Isaac Axford , at Keith? s Chapel , which 
my father discovered about three weeks 
after, and none of our family have seen 
her since, though her mother had a 
letter or two from her—but at last died 
of grief. There were many fabulous 
stories about her, but my aunt (the 
mother of II. Lightfoot) could never 
trace any to be true.” 
The above is a copy of a cousin of 
H. Lightfoot’s letter to me, on inquiry 
of particulars of this mysterious affair, 
and who is now living and more likely 
to know the particulars than any one 
else. The general belief of her friends 
was, that she was taken into keeping 
by Prince George directly after her 
marriage to Axford , but never lived 
with him. 
I have 
