hee ha) 
Be peta cS 
ki See 
on: 
1800.4}- 
as foldiers, failors, menial fervants, all 
perfons-under age, or thofe employed not 
in manufactures of any fort, the number 
muft' be confiderably above one half; it is 
clear therefore that in aLL the manufactures 
of England there are not three millions of 
perfons employed out of London; and 
when we confider the cotton-works, coal, 
and. other mines, Birmingham, Sheffield, 
“&c. &c.“we.muft be convinced that there 
is (as yolircorré Pondent feems to think) 
--a’geno too much put. to the nuinber: of 
fpinners and elothiers., ©. 
-On another view of the-matier we may 
confider, that three millions of perfors em- 
ployed w; uld manufuéiure: 1 50,000,0001. 
value of cluth annually,:as the value, of 
“the materials crs not wic.uded, and as the 
machinery employed enables each perfon, 
reat or {mall, to produce sol. worth, at 
jéafty Of manufactured goods (this indeed 
is mutch usder what they produce indivi- 
dually.) Now where does. 150,000,000}, 
worth of. cloth, go? As every tree is 
known by its fiuit, it follows that as 
there are na fuch fruits there can be no fuch 
tree. The whole amount of all forts of 
Enolifh. manufactures -exported is not 
more annually than one tenth of that fum. 
Again, ,if itwere poffible to ettablith 
the truth of what.thefe woollen manufac- 
turers: affert, could Ireland be a formida- 
ble rival.ia fo-immenfe a bufinels? Cer- 
tainly not. Now, Sir, J have. only 
troubled: you with thele few oblervations 
in erder te fhew the little attention paid 
‘to examining calculations produced before 
the Houfe of Commons; for though the 
prayer of the petition was refifted, it was 
not ‘on the proper footing; it never truck 
_-saoy Member of the Houle, that a ftate- 
" ment was gravely made at their Bar, which 
a litle common ({enfe, without appealing 
to.figures at all, would have thewn the 
~apfurdity of in a few minutes, for it 
fimply went to this,‘ that one half of the 
~Englith (out-of London) were woollen 
éloth. manufacturers, that is, deduéting 
children and people .incapable of wok, 
above three’ fourths. of the working people 
in.the kingdom, P.W. 
London, ift of Fuly, 1800. 
aed ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
-. 3K CORRESPONDENT who has read 
Aj with great pleafure the fenfible and 
fpivited animadyerfions of Mr. Robinion 
on the Philippic of Mr. Hall again&t mo- 
_ dern infidelity, would propofe, through 
. 
Subjeds.of Moral Inquiry fuggefted. 135 
the medium of your Magazine, as a cu- 
rious fubjeé&t of inveftigation, a queftion, 
ftated by Mr. R. in page 18. of his Exa- 
mination. ** How often wiil a man, dure 
ing fifty years.of maturity and reafon, aét 
upon a fair mathematical calculation of 
his intereits, weighing. exactly, and at 
once, their importance and duration?’’ 
This inquiry, which involves important 
confequences refpecting the future im- 
provement and happinefs. of mankind, 
may afford a fruitful fubjeét of medita- 
tion to the politician, the philofopher, and 
the divine. 
blem depends the truth and practicability 
of a favourite and popular modern po- 
fition—‘* That to make virtue the interelt 
of the people, is the true principal of les 
giflation.”’ 
The perufal of Mr. R.’s pamphlet may 
alfo fuggelt other inquiries. Admitting 
the principle there laid down, which feems 
to be fairly deduced, ‘* That morality is 
the effect of felf-love and fympathy, oper- 
ating conftantly upon the mind, and form- 
ing the character under the inflence of 
prefent objects ; That it confilts finply ia 
this difcharge of the duties which flow 
from the relaticns that fubfifts between 
man and man: That, its fan&tions are 
deeply rooted, and of univerfal operation : 
That an enlarged felf-love and focial are 
the fame:’’ It may be afked, what are the 
ufes of religious opinion, as it refpedis 
this would, independent of its confolations; 
or whether its factitious obfervances have 
been more beneficial or detrimental to hu- 
man happine!s? I would likewile propofe 
it to the 1nzenious author of the Examina- 
tion, whether he be quite accurate in his 
pofition, ¢¢ That the morality of a country 
‘would not be at all affeSied by a change in 
its faith Does hiftorical fa&t warrant him 
in this affertion? are (trong paffions never 
generated by diftant profpetts, of goo: 0” 
evil, or rather may not fuch profpests 
by habi: and affocia*i-n be brought homete 
the imagination, and rendered prefent tothe 
mind? Whence arofe martyrdom, wheuce 
perfecution for the love of God, whence 
the laceration of the body for the good of 
the foul? It religion has not, among the 
aftual circumftances by which man 1s fur- 
rounded, operated upon his pafiions.as a 
_ great moral and political engine, the na- 
ture of the human mind has been hitherto 
mifunderftood. Mr. R.’s obfervations, 
page 13. of the Examination, feem—in 
proof of thisidea  ** The do&trive tavghe 
at prefent in our churches affirms. the 
pre- 
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