© drefs ; and there can be no dou 
i 
624 
ence ble with the genuine fpirit of tice not being co-exte 
Ver 
Ci- 
philanthropy, fhould place fuch pow 
National Unanimity. 
i Sept. 
with the 
inaxim, this abfurdity does not feem to 
ful obfiruétions in way of wapronee ‘be much, if at all, taken notice) The 
ment. » tribe of Weyi "gs one of twelve, there- 
fore we may reckon one prieft to eleven 
laymem a the Jews. This too 
To the, Editor of the Monthly Magazines Sania appear abfurd, but for the confi- 
SIR, deration, that their religion. wasa cére- 
N a note 6f p. 280, of the Life 2 of Mr. wozial one. At the eftablifhment of tithes 
E Robinfo I have faid, .C. Un- for the Levites, the government was a 
eo was a fludent, and, “e i miftak 
afterwards a fellow of Chraits Ce 
Cambridge. He became tutér 
AF) 
to th 


theocracy,and, confequently, much of the 
civil adminiftration woul within the 
} By e wprovince cf the prieftheo nd redwire 
children of Cowper, the ingenious au emuneration, whichy with the ex- 
thor of the Tafk.”’ 
Having fince been repenteglos inform- 
that 1 was miftaken relative to Mr. 
Mesa peis who is mot married, and has no 
children ; and Bakes been called on by 
his friends at Olney, to make a pul 
declaration of my miftakeys I queft § 
favour of you to permit me ro rectity ‘His 
error through the medium f your Ma- 
gazine. I was led into i Mr. Cow- 
pe dedication of a Poe 
Swit, called Terocinuum, in which I am 
inf e education of dis children, 
“3 S children. 
r, your's, &c. 
GEORGE DYER. 






Sept. A, 17 + 
To ah of the Monthly cae nen 
SIR, 
MONEE following temark 
fhow to whagmifeh: 
a blind adherence iilléad: 
There are fcarcely any who are not con- 
vinced, either by perfonal experience, or 
the general omplaints of their neigh- 
bours, that ¢ishes have long remained an 
inveterate grievance, without hope of re- 
ferve to 
iurdities 





having been adopted as a 
rical mai ance, from the 
ofes for the Levites. By the funda- 
ntal maxim of the Engliyise-isw, IN 
appears,,that the prieith have a 
right to one-tenth of the annual produce 
of the kingdom*. The other citizens, then, 
have, by natural equity, a reciprocal 
claim to an equal thare ot inftruétion ; a 
number of teachers proportioned to the 
divifion of maintenance ; that _is, one 
prieft to nine laymen. This would be a 
ees arrangement for the fupport 
of a ds ak, Sucve but it 1s a fair de- 
du€tiqn from the principle. The prac- 

* See 2 Black. Com, 244 




Mr: Un- * 
ae ‘ 
for e house 
igary expence of faerifices, will 
to account for the difference be- 
one a vite’s one-tenth, and the 
cne-eleventh of nine-tenths. — 
RUTHIN 
ts 
is s Bis a 
To (eA itor of the Mon ade 
Lt. Bivery to enclofe a = ; 
layma 
Durbam, Fane 15,1796. 



am anxious fho ceive 
brief anfver from fome of th le cor- 
cape of the Monthly Magazine, 
y the infertion of which you will oblige, 
a F &c. EE Pew. 
Oley. Can the term ** New Wscshac. 
tures’ (which, for th of argument, I 
will allow comprehe new mechanic 
inffruments) under thefe words include 

Bll new App li aot poffiile applications, 
pradtitable a ications principles, be- 
, but not reduced to prac- 
tice, and of hifbrGe uments which are to 

~ 
be the fubjects of thefe principles, nor 
aclually organized, and certified in an or- 
ganized férm? . 
Garlijle, ‘ge 2, 1796. 

Tobe Editor of ibe Monihiy en 
Stny % 
NOCLPHING is ar ccmmon, in times 
ie ae ger ra than 
for t oe in poffe ad- 
miniftration of public affain ud- 

ly for unanimity.» ** In} cri 
(fay they) oppolition may have its ufe, 
and men are free tolmaintain what fyftem 
they choofe ; but in emergencies Le the 
prefent, that man cannot bea frien d to 
ne country who impedes the meafures 
loyed for the fecurity of t hole.. 
All difference in opinion ought now to. 
be funk in attention to the general wel- 
fare, and all the members of the com- 
munity fhould unite heart and hand Pie 
iS 
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