384 
fation of the ftomach, the flacknefs, tor- 
por, and languor, accompanied with head- 
ach, which fucceeds an intemperate ufe of 
winé, it isan expeditious and efficacious 
remedy to fwallowice cream. Perhaps, in 
the more ee analogous difeafe 
called, I believe, dyfpepfia, a like regimen 
might be found advantageous. 
May 30, 1796. aE: 

To the Edijor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ee difference of opinicn 
may have been entertained of the 
yuftice or neceflity of the contef in which 
we are unfortunately engaged, we {fhall, 
E believe, agree in acknowledging and 
lamenting the numerous evils of which 
it has been productive. Cur infular fitua- 
tion, and the protection our fleet has hap- 
pily been able to afford us, have prevent- 
ed our being immediately expofed to the 
moft terrible efteéis of war. Our country 
has not been ravaged; our towns and 
villages have not been " plandered ; and 
we have been ena led to remain peace- 
ably it. cur habitations: From thefe, 
amon git the leng cata ie ue of ills which 
arife from the contentions of neighbours 
and of nations, and to wnich many of the 
Warring powers on the continent have 
been expofed, we have fortunately been 
free—and I am very wilting to allow, 
that, in compariion with thefe, our Ge 
ferings may b be confidered as of fmall ac- 
cecunt. But even fuppofing we had 
efcaped all the more lamentable confe- 
quences of war; fuppofing we had not 
ta mourn the lofs cf any friend or re- 
laticn ; we have meft of us very fi aca 
caute cr complaint, in the gre eat increafe 
af taxes, and une great neceilary fe 
my the price € article 
Win 4 pains has, ineieed, been tak y 
e friends of minifi ry, to perfuade us, 
as th at the national debt is BAS of 
ational profperity ;’’ and to this pro- 
ae miniltes rs eae es feem to have 
fuileft. credit. If we may 
om, their song we may fup- 
y have believed that the greater 
the greater the profperity 
rerainding us in ‘this of the fory told of 
the countryman, whe, when his phyfician 
had -erdered him medicines, 
in double the quantity directed ; aoe 
that if he was to receive fuch a portion 
of retief fram the medicine, he fhoul 
Feceive twice the benefit by doubling ae 
dofe. "Fhe propefiticn with regard to 
the advantage derived from the mereafe 
of taxes, is, as’ obferved by Hume, “a 
Ver sy 
ORG rg a 
tem Ges 
Ss 
5 fs 
cara ieee 
% OS 
cr fe 
en 
th fr 
‘= 
(a?) 
Some Effects of the War. 
teok them - 
maxim the more dangerous, as. its truth 
cannot be altogether denied.” Some de- 
gree of ftimulus is undoubtedly necefiary 
to produce exertion. To neceffity, and 
their natural difadvantages, Sir W.Tem- 
ple afcribes the induftry of the Dutch; 
and draws a comparifon, in fupport of 
this opinion, betwixt Holland and Tres 
land. <“ an Treland, by the largenefs and 
plenty of the foil, and {careity ot people, 
all things neceflary to life are fo cheap 
that an indufirious man, by two days 
labour, may gain encugh to feed him the 
reft of the weck; which I take to bea 
very plain ground of the lazinefs to be 
attributed to that people.” It might 
poilibly be contended, that the want of 
induitry amongit the Inth, fuppofing it 
ftill to exift, ts rather to be imputed to 
their want of education, and to the fmall 
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degree of civilization there appears to 
be amongft a large part of the lower 
clais of mhabitants mm that country. But 
even granting that their lazinefs 1s to be. 
fcribed to the caufe mentioned, to. the 
cafe with which they procure the necef- 
faries of life ; are We therefore to con- 
clude that thefe cannot be made too dif- 
ficult of accefs? Man is naturally dif- 
pofed to be indolent—and fome objecét is 
wanted to produce exertion. While the 
opjedt 1 is within the peflibility ef attain- 
ment, he will probably, in moft inftances, 
be Lae to continue his exertions : 
but if he is aware that his utmoft induft 
and aétivity will fail im preducing fuccefs, 
he, in defpair, flackens his endeavours, 
and ceafes to ule thofe efforts which be- 
fore he found not 9 laborious. May 
he great increafe of poor through- 
out the kingdom be accounted for on this 
principle - 
fied attention was particularly led “to 
bole ae the frequent opportunities 
nav Seah had of obferving the effec 
e late taxes; “which was 
tre houfe as an mereafed 
uxury only, but which will, 
a many inftances, found Rig 
ition ef an ane often of 
very fri t neceility—I mean the 
large increafed duty on wine. In the 
neig! Todas of my prefent refidence, 
auilaw contagious fever has very much 
prevailed during a great part of the 
amg from we ell authenticated ac- 
counts it appears to have been much 
more fre quent than 
other p ae ef the ki ng dom ; and has m 
imany towns produced no {mall fhare of 
In a far mer Number of you® 
ining Miicellany, you men- 
tioned 
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