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accumulate a’quantity of manure are rea- 
dily accommodated by the farmer with 
Jand to fet it upon for potatoes, without 
paying any thing for it; by which means 
they obtain this, now neceflary, article at 
an eafy rate, and the farmer receives affil- 
tance to his land, which cofts him nothing. 
During thelate high price of provifions, 
the poor have been under the neceflity of 
living upon thofe potatoes which they 
would otherwife have faved for feed ; and 
their fituation would have prevented them 
from profiting by the above cuitom, had 
not the townfhips in this neighbourhood 
generoufly furnified them with feed-pota- 
toes gratis. 
The wages of a labouring man are from 
2s. to 2s. 6d. per day ; women, from 1s. 
to 1s 6d. Some farmers allow a quart of 
ale per day to the men, and proportion the 
wages accordingly. Men fervants that 
live in the houfes, eat, &c. with the far- 
mer, expect from io}. to 20]. per annum. 
Women, who have the fame privileges, 
afk from 5]. to 8]. Delving potatoes is 
taken by rood of eight (quare yards, at 1s. 
to Is. 6d. per rood, according to the na- 
ture of the foil, and the expectation of the 
employer. Getting them up is alfo con- 
tracted for at prices fimila:ly proportioned. 
‘The wages for mowing,ditching, draining, 
end the like, are too uncertain to quote 
with accuracy. I am of opinion, that one 
half of the delving, weeding, reaping, 
end many other equally laborious employ- 
ments, is here performed by women ; and 
they have often convinced me, that men 
receive greater wages more from cuftom 
than fuperior merit.* ALN. 
June 20, 1800. 
; <_< 
Fo tke Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE obferved that the influence of 
fafhion enters into every human con- 
cern, and its various turns and changes 
have almoft as fenfible an effect upon Inte- 
Yature as upon drefs; upon philofophy, 
as upon politics. Each change arifes 
from the increafe of wealth, or know- 
ledge, or induftry, or the love of novelty : 
and it were as eafy tu difcover an ade- 
quate caufe for a revolution in metaphy-- 
fics, as forthe fancy in the fhape of anew 
fhoe-buckle. The hand of time is wont 
to conduét the improvements in every art 
and every {cience to that point of fimpli- 

* Such reports as this will be thankfully 
received from any of our friends or Corre-. 
fpondents. Epitor. 
On Religion as a Branch of Female Education. [Auguit1, 
city, where amore perfpicacious order of 
beings would probably have commenced 
their difcoveries. At the clofe of the 
eighteenth century, the wheel of fafhion 
has touched the point, at which philolo- 
phy, politics, and morality, ought pro- 
perly to have fet out—education. To 
form the mind of youth, is to mould the 
difpofition cf a new generation; it is the 
reformation or the debafement of mankind 
for a certain period ; it is the confirma- 
tion or the deftruction of all that our an- 
ceftors have done of good, or wife, or 
virtuous. Education may be called the 
art of concentrating the {pivit of philofe- 
phy, and of the acquifitiovs of our fore- 
fathers. It draws them to a focus, and 
fits them for prefent ufe. 
Locke faw the neceflity of attention to 
education, and reafoned upon it; Helve- 
tius imagined, Rouffeau felt, Condillaec 
miftook theory for praétice,and Edgeworth 
from practice deduces theory. Little is 
now wanting but perfeverance in the ar- 
duous tafk, to effect all that can be de- 
fired, and to: produce a virtuous and en. 
lightened race. 
In order to attain this end, however, 
one thing is neceflary which feems to 
have been flightly regarded by moft of the 
writers upon this fubject, to have been re- 
jeGted as fuperfluous by others, and to 
have been purpofely omitted altogether by 
the candid and ingenious author of Prac- 
tical Education—I mean early attention to 
religion. 
Mifs Edgeworth has treated of all parts 
of education connected with the prefent 
life, in a manner that combines the re- 
fearch of the theorift, with the corrobora- 
tive teftimony of the praCtitioner. But 
fhe has not fufficiently attended tothe molt 
important of all -points—*‘ our being’s 
end and aim’’—the object of our exiltence. 
This is to acquire happinefs, and to pro- 
mote that of others; to avoid evil our- 
felves, and to prevent evil in others. 
Upon thele points do the virtue and the 
profperity of the world depend, individu- 
al and colleétive. 
But general or fpeculative motives are 
not of themfelves ftrong enough to balance 
the counter impulle of the patfions, which 
act individually and immediately. ‘They 
require the affitance of religion—of the 
profpets and fanCtions of eternity. Is it 
not rational then to afford fuch fupportto 
the young and flexible mind, at a time 
when the paflions are almoft violent, and 
moft difficult to countera& by mere rea- 
fon? Mult we pais our lives without that 
fupport ; or muit each individual, in order 
to 
