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one leading principle of his plan; namely, 
that of employing young people in a place 
which feparates them from the vices in’ 
which they have lived, ina mode of fup- 
porting the fociety on which they are to 
depend, until they are deemed fit to be re- 
turned into the world :—Again, the Mag- 
dalen Hofpital receives the very objets of 
compafiion whom E. P. more particularly 
points to—where they are inftru€ted and 
reformed if their reformation be poflible 
—and the difficulty in E.P.’s mind of 
their being ever received into families 
afterwards, is removed by the faét of 
numbers of reclaimed women having been 
fo received, after their having left that 
houle, and become moral characters.— 
But as E.P. dates from Newcaftle upon 
Tyne, it may be probable that he has not 
feen in his neighbourhood the good effects 
daily felt here of the two inftitutions which 
TI have mentioned ; in which cafe, if he 
would procure books of their rules, he 
might with a little labour model one fociety 
for his diftriGt out of them both—but his 
own zeal muft folicit patronage—his own 
unremitted care muft form the defign— 
and his perfeverance refift difficulties and 
difcouragement even to endure the relax- 
ation of his fupporters and the deficiency 
of funds. 
Sune 5, 1799s A.H. 
EE : 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazithe. 
SIR, 
ERMIT me to mention one peculiar 
A hardfhip under which the poor of 
this country labour. Amidft the necef- 
fary burdens of the war, it has been the 
laudable endeavour of adminiftration to 
lay on taxes, fo as to affect the lower 
orders of fociety as little as poilible.— 
, In one inftance, however, they have de- 
viated from this general rule. Salt is a 
neceflary article of life, and ought to go 
as untaxed as any thing elfe which forms . 
the immediate fuftenance of the people at 
large. In a northern climate like this, 
to lay up a flock of winter provifion of 
fleth or fith, is abfolutely neceflary. The . 
high price of falt prevents the poor from 
doing this, to a proper extent, and dif- 
trefes them much. The fifhermen on our 
coafts are not able to falt their herrings 
and pilchards, as they were accuftomed to 
do formerly, for want of capital :—fince 
for ten pounds weight of falt they muf 
now give as much, as fome time. ago 
would purchafe ten times that quantity. 
The fith they take, therefore, more than 
they can immediately fell, are converted 
Hardpoip of the Salt-tax—Efape of a Dog. 
[Sept. 
into manure for the land. From this 
watte of what fhould fupport the poor, 
another inconvenience arifes—other kinds 
‘of food are eaten in greater abundance, 
and confequently their prices rife with 
the demand for eonfumption. Thus this 
tax operates two ways—by preventing 
fome articles from being brought to the 
market, and raifing the price of thofe that 
are: in both of which the poor are mate- 
rial fufferers. 
I fincerely hope fome friend to huma= 
nity will take up this bufine(s, in the proper 
place, and endeavour to get this odious 
Gabelle repealed. I cannot fay I admire 
that philanthropy which leoks abroad, 
and neglects home—which talks of the 
blood of Africans mixed with fugar, and 
forgets the fufferings of the poor of this 
country., If proper reprefentations of the 
hardfhip of this tax were made, there is 
little doubt but a repeal of it might be 
effected; and certainly its author weuld 
gain to himfelf lafting reputation; and, 
what is more—the confolatory thought of 
having benefited the condition of the op- 
prefled Poor. I am, &c. 
May 22, 1799: ee 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SLR, 
T 7 AVING lately come to the know 
ledge of a curious efcape cf a dog, 
unqueitionably true, I thought it worth 
preferving ; and therefore fend it ‘you, 
juftas the owner of the animal related it 
to me. , 
When preparations were making in St. 
Paul’s td receive his Majefty, on his in- 
tended vifit. to return thanks for his re- 
covery; a favourite bitch attended its 
mafter into the church, and followed him 
up the dark ftairs of the dome. Here, 
allat once, it was miffing, and the mafter 
whiftied and called a long time in vain. 
Nine wecks after this circtypiiance, all 
but two days, fome glaziers were at work 
in St. Paul’s, and heard among the tim- 
bers that fupport the dome a faint noife ; 
thinking it might be fome unfortunate hu. 
man being, they tied a rope reund a boy, 
and let him down about the place whence 
thenoife came. At the bottom he found 
a dog lying on its fide, together with the 
{keleton of another dog, and an old  fhoe 
half eaten. The humanity of the boy 
led him to refcue the animal from its mi- 
ferable fituation, and it was according}y 
drawn up. As it was very much ema- 
ciated, and f{carce able to ftand, the work- 
men placed it in the porch of the church, 
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