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fity which eompels thofe to have recourfe 
to charity who are able and willing to 
work, is attended with the moft' injurious 
confequences to the true interefts of the 
country. The man who finds himfelf 
unable, by the utmoft exertions of his in- 
duftry, to procure fubfiftence for himfelf, 
and thofe to whom nature has given a 
claim upon him, will naturally fink into 
de{pondency, and too often’ feek refuge 
in pernicious habits, if he is not driven to 
unlawful praétices. Should he fucceed in 
obtaining the boon of charity, it muft be 
through the facrifice of that fpirit of in- 
dependence which is the greateft ftimulus 
to honeft induftry, and which, while it fees 
any probability of fuccefs, has more in- 
fluence among the labouring part of the 
community, than many in a fuperior rank 
of life probably conceive: this difpofiticn, 
fo eflential to individual happinefs, and to 
national ftrength and proiperity, when 
once deftroyed by humiliating circum- 
ftances, feldom refumes its former power ; 
and it cannot be a matter of furprife, that 
a conviction of the impoffibility of living 
by his labour, and dependence on charity, 
fhould frequently caufe a man to fink into 
indolence and fervility, which are the Jle- 
ftruétion- of honeft ufefulnefs, and gene- 
rally lead to a further debafement of cha- 
racter. 
The different plans of relief that have 
been adopted, are neceflarily partial, and 
even taken in the aggregate they by no 
yneanls go to the extent of the evil to be 
remedied ; this can only be done effeétu- 
ally, and cenfiftently with the happinefs. 
and improvement of the condition of the 
ynduftrious poor, by enabling them to earz 
a fubfiftence by their labour, by fuch an 
advance of their wages as the increafed 
price of the neceffaries of life has rendered 
neceffary. Interefted motives, or falfe 
policy, alone, can raife objections to the 
meafure; and, it is to be hoped, that 
where individuals are prevented from adopt- 
ing it by injudicious laws or reftrigtions, 
a more general conviction of its neceffity 
will remove the obftacle. Till it takes 
place generally, the aid of charity muft 
conftantly, or very frequently, be conti- 
nued ; thofe who wifh to preferve a race 
of honeft and induftrious workmen and 
Jabourers, fhould therefore confider the 
beft means of leffening, or, if poffible, pre- 
venting, the evil confequences that attend 
charitable affiftance. Many manufactu- 
rers, and others who employ a great num- 
ber of hands, have contributed very libe- 
rally to the late fub{criptions for the 
relief of the poor; fuch pErions might 
Encouragement of Induftry.—Druidical Monuments. 
April 1, 
perhaps difpenfe their bbangy more judici - 
cufly themfelves, by purchafing articles of 
neceffity, and dali butilig them among 
their own workmen as rewards for every 
certain quantity of work performed. So- 
cieties which have been formed for diftri- 
buting bread, potatoes, coals, and other ar- 
ticles, might authorize manufa&turers, me- 
chanics, or farmers, in the neighbourhood, 
to iffue to the perfons they employ, for 
every piece of goods finithed, or fixed 
quantity of work; tickets, entitling ‘them 
to a portion of the article diftributed. 
This would, in fome degree, render cha- 
rity the means of encouraging productive 
labour, by making it a compenfation for 
inadequate wages; but, even in its beft 
poflible form, all kinds of affiftance ori- 
ginating in the bounty of others, to 
thofe who are able to work, ought to ceafe 
by the removal of the neceffity for it, as 
{peedily as poffible; and fo far as the ad- 
vanced price of the neceflaries of life, 
which caufes the prefent difficulty of fub- 
fiftence, is likely to be permanent, which 
it muft be in a great degree, juftice fhould 
prevent the neceffity of a dependance on 
charity. J. J. G. 
March 10, 1800. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT OF A DRUIDICAL 
MENT NEAR PARIS. 
ONCEIVING it to be of i importance, 
that accounts of all the monuments, 
which tend to elucidate the hiftory of 
ancient Europe, fhguld be collected, and 
alfo brought before the Britifh public, I 
beg the favour of your inferting the fol- 
lowing extract from the laft year’s Proceed- 
ings of the French National Inftitute*. 
ARTICLES OFANTIQUITIES—On a Monu- 
ment of Druid Warfhip obferved near Trie ; 
and on a SuperftitiousCuftom, which proves 
that Worfhip to have been common to 
France and to Britain, ByC Cb. Coguebert. 
MONU- 
‘¢ In different countries of Europe there 
are to be feen monuments formed by the 
aflemblage of a number of enormous ftones ; 
two, three, or four fet upright, and then 
one generally much larger being placed 
upon the others, either horizontally, 
or inclining a litle one way. Thetfe 
monuments appear to have ferved as altars 
for facrifices; and it feems that our an- 
ceftors, when as yet barbarous, immolated 
victims of every fort, and even of their 

* Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philo- 
matigques Paris, Ibcrmidor, an 7b de la Repub- 
liguty 
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