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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE double corref&tion of one fhort 
fentence in Ariftotle’s rhetoric, pro- 
pofed in your laft Magazine, by W.C. H. 
appears to me perfectly gratuitous and 
unneceflary. He refers the paflage to 
lib. ii. cap. 18. I find itin lib, ii. cap. 
16. of Sylburgius’s edition, and in cap. 
13. fect. 2. of the fame book in ed. Ox- 
on.1759. The purport of the claufe will 
beft appear from the context, which ftands 
thus : 
‘¢ Now the peculiar manners, which 
are the concomitants of wealth, prefent 
themfelves on the furface to every man’s 
obfervation: for rich men are prone to 
infult and arrogance, from feelings inva- 
riably connected with the poffeflion of 
wealth ; for they perceive themfelves fo 
affected, as if they were mafters of every 
thing good ; i#afmuch as money is the com- 
mon fiandard, by which the worth of all 
other things is eftimated:” ‘o de (fome edi- 
tions, 6 yee’ with an immaterial varia- 
tion) wAxvres, ofov Tian TIS ECIE TNS aEIs THY 
GAAwy* Ov 6 Dowerees MavTe wre Ear auTe : 
*< becaufe every thing appears purchafe- 
able by money.” 
All this feems to me as plain and unex- 
ceptionable as poflible, and arranged with 
that confecutive dependence of the claufes, 
which preéminently diftinguifhes this 
incomparable reafoner. Tthe domineering 
manners of rich men arife from the fan- 
cied ,fuperiority of their endowments ; 
this notion of fuperiority in wealth {prings 
from their conception of wealth as a cri- 
terion of value to all other things; and 
this conception is produced by daily ex- 
perience, which actually afcertains this 
general truth, that all things have their 
price, and are acceflible to the influence of 
wealth: a pofition, too much counte- 
nanced by the conduét of men in allages. 
The teftimony of Horace is fo very perti- 
nent and explicit to this effect, fat. 11. 3. 
94—99. as to deferve quotation ; 

Omnis enim res, 
Monrz, Mac. No, xxx, 
Virtus, fama, decus, divina humanaque, pul- 
chris 
Divitiis parent 5 quas quiconftruxerit, ille 
Clarus erit, fortis, juftus. Sapiens ne ?_ Etiam 
ef rex, 
Et quidquid volet. 
GILBERT WAKEFLELD. 
Hackney, April 2. 
Caeemaatiiieg SN ee 
To the Editor of the Mcnthly Magazine. 
SIR, ; 
bee I fent you an account of the 
Female Friendly Society at Ber- 
wick, I engaged totran{mit fome account 
alfo of a Female Friendly Society at 
York, which was inftituted in the year 
1788. ‘The idea of forming it arofe prin- 
cipally from the wifh of prolonging the 
patronage of the ladies, who had for {ome 
time luperintended two charity-{chools in 
this city, tothe young girls educated in 
them, beyond the period of their conti- 
nuance in their refpeétive fchools. For it 
always feemed to me that the bufinefs 
was left incomplete, however well the in- 
ftitutions «hem{elves might be regulated, 
if the objets of them were abandoned to 
take their chance in the world, often 
without parent, proteétor, or friend, at 
the very moment when they are moft lia+ 
ble to a train of evils, more fatal perhaps 
in their confequence than even thofe from 
which, in their infant years, they had 
been refcued. 
The outline of the plan is as follows : 
—That every girl, on her leaving either 
of the fchools, if her behaviour in them 
was approved, fhall have the option of 
becoming a member of the friendly fociety 
on the following terms. Entrance mo- 
ney 2s. 6d. Sub{cription for the fir 
two years (when her wages as a fervant 
may be fuppofed to be very fmali), quar- 
terly, 1s. Afterwards the fum of 1s. 6d. 
quarterly. .And when the fubfcription- 
has ‘been paid one half year, fhe fhall be 
entitled to the benefits, which are as 
follow : 
The fum of 4s..per week iniany ex- 
Ah . Mi 2c ree 
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