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°1798.] 
out the whole ceconomy of man, the mo- 
tive appointed to attain it ; Thirdly, that 
it is denied, as a fac?, by the uniform - 
fenfe and experience of mankind, who do 
in reality never ground their moral ap- 
probation and blame on fuch a forecaft : 
and Fourthly that it fails, as a project, as 
affording no certain inferences, as pro- 
poling no adequate incentives, and as en- 
joining an impracticable obfervance, at 
the fame time that in its full extent it 
neceflarily prefcribes all the natural prin- 
ciples of action in man, and all the na- 
tural and artificial correctives operating 
jn thefe principles. 
II. That moral diftinction zs derived 
from the peculiar impreffions immediately 
formed in the mind by the objects of this 
diftin&tion. Firft, that the fentiments of 
moral approbation and blame, which give 
at once being and force to moral diftinc- 
tion, cannot be produced by reafon alone, 
whofe objet is fimply truth and falfe- 
hood, unaccompanied by any fentiment 
whatever: Secondly, that they cannot be 
deduced from any general fentiment in 
favour of their ultimate end—the general 
Boat fince the particular muft have con- 
uéted to the general fentiment and can- 
not be derived from it; Thirdly, that 
they mult be direétly excited'\in the mind 
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429 
by the ‘objects of thefe fentiments: and, 
Fourthly, that the principle of fympathy, 
as eXplained by Adam Smith, accounts 
for the mode in which thefe fentiments 
are thus excited, and opens of courfe the 
true theory of morals. 
From cau es not to our prefent purpofe 
to examine, and which lie too deep to 
notice flightly, the leaning of the public 
mind, I am aware, is againft me: but, 
after revolving the above topics, I wilh 
to put it to your judgment, whether the 
true ftate of the cafe is not precifely this 
---the end of our moral fentiments is the 
general good ;---undoubtedly it is ;---and 
1o long as we demonftrate their tendency 
tu this end, we advance the interefts of 
morality, by difplaying its harmony with 
the benevolent tyitem in which we live, 
and exciting a fentiment in its favour, 
which, if not forcible, is at leaft diffufive: 
but when rejecting thefe fentiments, and 
the doétrines and condu&t founded on 
them, as mere prejudice, we pretend to 
deduce our moral duties, arguing down- 
ward, from the fole principle of general 
good, we neceffarily involve ourfelves in 
all the errors and abfurdites which deform 
the well-written pages of Mr. Goodwin's 
Political Juttice. G.N. 
Ipfuich, Aug. 19, 1798-6 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
. 7 OUR Readers being all of them interefted in the rapid progrefs of the National 
Debt, fome of them may prefer a concife {tatement, to a more involved detail; 
I beg therefore as we are approached to the clofe of the year, you will accept the 
following fummary 
for the defence of property : 
view of the grofs debt contraéted during this war, and maintained 







Money Stock Stock Stock Total L. Ann. 
i borrowed. |3 p. Cent. 4 p. Cent.!5 p. Cent.| of Stock. | for ical, 
Millions, | Millions | Millions. | Millions, | Millions. 
Firft Loan 1793 ~ - - -} 54 62 4 
Second Do. 1794 - - - ae Te II 2¢ 132 | 11 5 
Third Do. February 1795 - - -| 13 24 9 6 
Fourth Do. December - - = 2 26 6 6 
Fifth Do. April 1796 - - aca Ae tol | 5 6 
Sixth Do, December (Loyalty) - -} 18 204 | 20% |———+ 
Seventh Do. April 1797 - ah ee 35, 6 6 
Eighth Do. December - - ale OTS 232} 66 
Ninth Do, April 1798 - - -| 15 30 4 6 
Tenth Do. December - - = 2 52 
Nov. 1796 Navy and Exchequer Bills -| 33 2% |\ 212 
Do. Prior - - - ~ Si gy 3. 3 
147 ol 3 iions 
AG 3 2245 Millions: 
Mill 028. vtz 
1732 at 3 per Cent. Intereit _— — 52340,000 
152 at 4 per Cent. oes — 620,000 
302 at § per Cent. ——— ~~ — 1,525,000 
99% Millions Lony Annuities, average 6). 6s. for rool. 320,000 
. 
Annual outgoing — — »805,0C0 
outgoing 
Befide the 1 per Cent. appropriated, and the management, &c, 2,440,000 
- a et a 
Montury Mac. No. xxxix. £ 10,245,000 
