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word—and in the fame manner, under the 
fame circumftance, to incorporate into a 
‘ fingle word the propefition and the noun 
which it governed, as the Germans fre- 
quently combine a prepolition or adverb 
with the verb with which it is connected 
in fenfe*, thus producing Quintilian’s 
“ difiulata diflinctio.” 
It I be right in the conclufion which I 
draw from the exemples above quoted, 1 
fubmit to the advocates of accentual read- 
ing whether fuch combinations of words, 
and confequent increaie in the number of 
fyllables te which a fingle accent was to 
be applied, muft not have neceflirily pro- 
duced a deviation from the ordinary ac- 
count of the individual words, as pro- 
nounced feparate from the article or pre- 
pofition. I fuqmit to them whether the 
circumftance here noticed does not carro- 
borate Quintilian’s remark, and in fome 
meafure authorife the ufe which I have 
made of it in a late publication—* Lafin 
Profedy made enfy’—in that part where I 
touch upon ‘the quetiton whether the 
Greek and Latin poetry fhould be read by 
us moderns according to accent or accord- 
-ing to quantity, and where, Lam forry to 
learn, I have given umbrage to fome of 
thofe gentlemen who prefer the accentual 
mode. Tam, Sir, yours, &c. 
Merlin’s Piace, . 
Clerkenwell, OF. 43,1800. J. CaREY. 
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Ya the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
2. SERS 3 
HE many ufeful hints for improving 
the condition of the poor, conveyed 
through the medium of your Magazine, 
encourage me fo offer’my {entiments upon 
a fubject relative to the management of 
the female and infant peor confined in 
parith workboufes and Amiiar inititutions. 
It may be proper,to premife that I am 
not one of tho’e bold projeétors who are 
defirous of overturning the prefent fyftem 
of feciety, by placing women on an e- 
quality with men in the fenate, on the 
bench, or at the bar; but ama firenuous 
advocaie ior the exertion of their abilities, 
nataral and acquired, inevery depaitment 
co#fittent with their fex and the preferva- 
tion of that delicacy of fentiment and 
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manners which forms their diftinguilhisg 
ornament. 
Now, Sir, it has long appeared to me, 
* To fay nothing of the Greek, Latin, or 
Englith words, avcwedly compounded with 
prepofitions, as emjzergos abjfinct, income, 
Superintendance of Females propofed for Werkhcufes. [Nov. 1, 
that without any deviation from the 
firitelt propriety, women might be affo- 
ciated with men in the cffice of overfeer, 
and take an active part in the internal go- 
vernment of parifh workhoufes and hun- 
dred houfes, as far as concerns their own 
fex and the case of the children, with ad- 
vantage to themfelves, and to thof2 who 
would be under their proteétion—I fay 
with advantage to themlelves, becaufe 
multitudes in every degree of the clafs 
called gentlewomen are viétims to ennui 
and the card-table, from want of objets 
fufficiently interefting to cal forth the ex- 
ertion of their talests: it remains for me 
to fhew the benefit to be derived by the 
poor and the community at large from 
the execution of this fcheme. Tt ‘can 
{careely be doubted, that a great number 
cf infants have perifh-d im thefe abedes of 
mifery from unkind treatment and want of 
proper food and cloathing: women are, 
unqueftionably, fcom their habits and edu- 
cation, more competent than men to judge 
of thefe points, and from the tendernefs of 
their nature more likely to give them clefe 
attention. , 
The inftru€tion of girls advanced be- 
yond infancy, inthe principles ef religion 
and good morals, and in the ufeful arts of 
life, is of great importance to the public; 
and, if carefully attended to in every work- 
ncule, would probably have a very exten- 
five influence on the manners ef the next 
generation: women, combining example 
with precept, are peculiarly adapted to 
the infpeCtion of this department of the 
duty of the miftrefS of the workhoufe. 
With refpeg&t to the care of the mature 
and the aged, I leave it to the judgment 
of the unprejudiced, whether their wants, 
difeafes and infirmities, may not with far 
more propricty be examined and relieved 
by their own fex, than by the other. 
There is yet another clafs who are ob- 
jefts of the greateft cominiferation ; I ads 
vert to thole who have taken the firft falfe 
fiep, and are obliged from poverty, er the 
unfeeling condu&. of their feducer and 
relations, to lie-in in a workhoufe: over- 
whelmed with difgrace, and often corrupt- 
ed by the profligate who are fuffered to afl 
{ciate with them, they become hardened 
in vice, and add to the number of thole 
who infett our ftreets; when, by the ten- 
der advice and difcrimination of a female 
viatant, they might be {natched from ruin, 
and recalled to the paths of peace and 
virtue. 
I would therefore propefe that two fe~ 
male inhabitants of the molt refpeétable 
character 
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