‘ I A ‘3 3 é q 
1796.) Addifon’s Drummer, . ..Imprifoament of Seven Quakers. 61 
ment to induftry fhould be afforded. I 
know many men who now are refpecta- 
ble farmers of 150l. a~-yearwor more, who 
were twenty years ago nothing but com- 
mon labourers. Is it not more advan 
tageous that their money thould be an 
* employed, than {pent in drunkennefs and 
debauchery ? 
Perhaps I did not fufficiently explain 
myfelfwith regard tomilk, for I was un- 
willingyto take up more rooin in your 
Magazine than was neceflars pe Fe only 
Gia that pher confequence of large 
_ farms was, that the pone could | not ob- 





w of sit, as that the 



koe 
i mer will not fell it them. 1 sere) 
tich and too much {et up to reeeive their 
_halfpence: no, it feeds his hogs ; and, 
in his eyes, that is a matter of 
reater importance than the hy iy 0 
poor neighbours. I. fay th, for 
nothing contributes fo much towards the 
health of a poor perfon’s fam yas plenty 
ef milk. . 
G. thinks poultry al 
neath confideration, but. yh 
or not, I much doubt. .W 
poultry is reared at little r no expence, 
» and is, befides, a plain and wholefome 
_ food, I.can never coicbive as a luxt 
as bemeath confideration. Gwe 
~ I cannot but fuppofe, but. that’ 
deftroys the juft gradation of the different. 
orders of fociety is detrimental. This 
is a matter of opinion, but I believe of 
an Opinion very generally received.— 
However, it certainly ce of fact, 
that large farms do de 
tion. ae: 

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Ihave thus, fir, peep endeayoured:to. 
defend my opinion on this fubject. How 
far I may convince others, ea not 3 
but of, the truth of what I advance, I 
myfelf am, from expemie 
fuaded. It is not my inte 
into any farther controver 
a tem pet if any other per 
eit up *, J fhall be hap DY 










ne, perha 
ezine eae a 
he Bho, Sebte 4 
ent,“ 4 Pipe Weredand ; 
Cia on account of ite gr 



ely, 
as Epitont 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magaxine. 
SIR, 
AVING underftood from Dr. John- 
“fon’ s Life of Addifon, that the lat- 
ever acknowledged the comedy. 
q mer to be the production of 
his pen, ane that its claim to fuch an ori- 
gin depended merely on ‘its haviag 
been delivered by Addifon to Stcele az 
a tavern, as the compofition of a gentle- 
man in company; I was foméwhat fur- 
prifed to find in the editio ‘a caumeont 
and Fletcher, by Theobald, Stewa ed, and 
Sympfon, vol. i, p. 294, a note Se 
obald, which, if it may be credited, will 
ae the claim of Addifom beyond dif- 
Speaking of the character of Sa~ 
in the Scornful Lady, he fays, “ The 
ingenious Mr. Addifon, 1 remember, told 
me that he tketched out the charaéter of 
Vellum, in the comedy called , 
mer, from this model.’} Whe charaéter 
of Pheoba ld, I believe, was not nu 
diftinguifhed by veracity, and in this 
inftance his, memory might have failed 
him. Perhaps however fome of your 
correfpondents may be able: to ertain 
what fore of credit is due to the ‘above 
affertion; and in doing this t oe wil 
obli igey ." 
Your’s, ota di 








To hie Edilgy of a Moh 
SIR, 


350 of your mif- 
ct which had long 
engrof fed my attention. That the pub- 
lic “might not be Trig to the cir- 
cumftances of an affair, tC wien there 
was a general curiofity, I wrote in the 
month “Of May laft, a pamp le en itled 
bi stures on the condu€tof the kev. 
George Markham, A.M. Vicar of Car!- 
ton, occafione by his profecution of 
everal members of the pcople called 
Quakers “for their non-payment 
Tithes.” This was publ ithed in June,’ 
Owen, and I have reafon to be- 
deve thie the tendency of that pamphlet 
has been approved by many worthy and 
diftin gaithed members of the Ch "a oF 






he excellence of a lanity, ‘cannot 
but view the line of conduct which Mr. 
Markham has purfued, aS aiming to de- 
firoy the exiftence of the former, and di- 
rectly, 





