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nity, who are fued for debts which they 
refufe to pay, join in trite reflections on 
the profeifion, and others, who employ 
what they call arp /awyers, without any 
regard to their honefty, make grievous 
complaints, becaufe the men whom they 
intended fhould fake im others, have taken 
in themfelves. Another and a principal 
ground of complaint arifes from wnat 
practitioners can feldom prevent, the) hea- 
vy expence, and often the lone duration 
of {yits. “Chis is undoubtedly a dreadful 
hardfhip on fuitors, but it is imputable to 
a variety of caufes, which it would re- 
quire much time and iabour to explain, 
and be dificult te remove. I truit, that 
you will allow thefe few remarks to ap- 
pear in your next Number, and that if I 
do not conyince your correfpondents, that 
lawyers may be honeft, you and moft of 
your “enlightened”’ readers will form a 
different opinion. 
Den. re, 1799. L. 
SEE 
To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
STR, 
WIR. GisBoRNE, in the 2d chapter of 
4 his refpectable work, called, “ Ax 
Enquiry into the Duties of Men,” has the fol- 
Jowing paflage, the principle of which ap. 
pears to me to be very unjuft: “Confent 
given by every native of Great Britain,in 
his turn, when he arrives at the age of 
difcretion, to the government which he 
finds adopted by his countrymen, and 
eapreffed by his continu:ng im the land, and 
yoluntarily accepting the protection of 
the flare, with entire confcioulnels that it 
is afforded to him only on the reciprocal 
condition of obedience to the laws, coniti- 
tutes him fully and juttly a Britith fubject. 
No cempulfion was ufed or threatened ; 
the act was entirely his own. Had he 
been averle to acquicfce in the conftitu- 
tion fanctioned by his countrymen, she 
world was before him, and be was at liberty 
to. depart. He is not fubject,” continues 
Mr. G. ** to the government, becatufe his 
anceftors obeyed it, but becau‘e he bas vo-— 
duniarily engaged to obey it bimfelf.” 
Having neither leifure nor ability for 
the tafk myfelf, I beg leave to requeft, 
through the channel of your exeellent 
Mifcellany, fome liberal-minded perfon to 
_ take upon him the trouble of anfwering 
the following queries, at fome length : 
iftly, Does refidence in any country 
imply a complete acquiefcence in every 
part of the conftitution cf that country ? 
adly, Is it the duty of aman, who 
rom reafoning, or experience, finds caute 
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to difapprove of any particular part of the 
con{titucion ef his native country, to leave 
his zatale folum, family, friends, and con- 
nections, to flee among flrangers, on ac- 
count of fuch difapprobation, even fup- 
pofing his property to be of that kind 
which can be conveyed abroad ? 
3dliy, Is it, or isc not the duty of a 
man, who /cerely belteves that any part 
of the gconftitution of his native country 
is vadically wrong (for his native country 
is as dear to him, in other refpeéts, as it 
can be to any other man, however partial 
he may be to every part of the conttitu- 
tion) ro continue in that country, and to 
exert himfelf dy af/ fair means, to produce 
a fimilar conyjétion in the hearts of his 
fellow citizens ? ahs hil 
athly, Is it not fairly confeifing that 
a nation bas grievances to complain of, 
when the flighteft attempt at diffufing a 
knowledge of axioms, and which place- 
men and bigots zgworantly atfeét to call 
jucobinical, is repreffed with “a vigour 
beyond the Jaw ?”’ and would not a nation, 
unanimpufly confcious that no grievances 
exifted, rather laugh at the maniacal afler- 
tions of Englifh Marats, than puntih them 
as ferious opinions certadily and widely 
pettiferous ? 
sthly, If arguments of any fort need 
only be heard to be admitted, is it nota 
proof that fuch arguments are founded 
upon fome undeniable facts ? 
Manchefler, Your's; dc: 
Dec; 17, 2796. DwuBIovs. 
ae Cen 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Mer of your readers, I prefume, are 
acquainted with the exiftence and the 
defign of the CHEAP REPOSITORY :—, 
but, befide the poffibility that to a few 
it remains entirely unknown, and that 
others have been introduced as vet mere- 
ly to the name ; it feems defirable that 
one, at leaft, of our periodical mifcellanies 
fhould publith to the living, and convey 
-down to pofterity, the nature, origin, and 
progrefs of a literary inftitution, perhaps 
the moft benevolent and promifing the 
century hath produced :—and permita 
conftant reader to add, that he knows not 
of a mifcellany more likely to perpetuate 
its contents, than that in which he is am- 
bitious to infert the annexed ftatement: 
The cheap repofiiory ranks among the 
inany happy ideas of Miss More, whofe 
circular letter. publithed at the commence- 
ment of the inftitution, will furnifh the 
beft view of its principle and its plan: 
A PLAN 
