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might be made, he would be at liberty to 
propofe and recommend it. / 
The following particulars feem to me 
important objeéts of confideration: How 
the joint property may be beft fecured ? 
How it may be made to produce the mott 
p.ffible intereft? And how every indivi- 
dual (on a change in his circumftances) 
may at any time increafe his contribution; 
or, if his neceffities require it, how he 
may draw out his capital, or fufpend his 
contribution, under certain reftrictions, 
without forfeiting the whole of his pay- 
ments. 
I do not expeét a plan fo general’y ufe- 
ful and minute as to require no alteration 
for local cireumftances, or particu:lar opt- 
nions; but the neareft approach that may 
be towards it, fo that a tew individuals, 
with little or no iuformation on the fub- 
ject, but of {ufficient influence in their 
Nittle fphere, and defirous of promoting 
the happinefs of their fellow-creatures, 
“may take up the leading articles in fuli 
confidence that they will be fale and pro- 
ductive. 
It is neealefs to attempt enumerating 
the many advantages that might refult from 
the adoption of fuch a plan; but I cannot 
forbear menticning two of them of fo much 
importance as ftrongly to recommend it: 
One is, the habits of economy and the lau- 
dable fpirit of independence which would 
be excised in the lower clafs; and the other 
is, the check that would, on the other 
hand, be given to avarice in the middle 
cla‘s. Having once engaged, the pay- 
ments mutt be continued or forfeited ; and, 
knowing that a certain provifon is accu 
mulating for that period of life when no- 
thing but reft. and tranquillity can be en- 
joyment, the mind muft be free from the 
conftant and flavifh dread of accident and 
misfortune. I have faid nothing about 
provifion for widows, as this, I believe, 
is generally incorporated in the rules, and 
is certainly of equal importance with the 
other. In fhort, it is the only certain and 
practicable way of accomplifhing thefe de- 
firable purpoles, and is equally open tothe 
conditions of all occupations and ranks. 
The fubjeét, Mr. Editor, will apologize 
for the length of my introfion ; and if the 
plan recommended may occupy more cf 
your attention than is perfectly agreeable, 
or more room in your excellent mifceliany 
than is ufually allotted to one fubject, I 
hope I do not overrate its value in faying, 
that an extra hour, or page or two, cannot 
poffibly be better employed. 
Birmingham, 1 remain refpeCtfully, 
Od. 27, 1799- Your’s, J. 
Montuir Mac, Neo, 53. 
L, 
Authority of the Mofaic Law. 
949 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine- 
STR. 03 
MUST beg for a corner of your very 
ufefol miiceliany, in order to remark 
the great favour which authors would do 
to a very numerous and refpectable cla{s 
of réaders, if they would more generally 
maik the pronunciation of uncommon 
words, particulariy proper names, and 
terms of {cienceand art. Imean by the ufe 
of the accent, asin Withering’s Botanical 
Arrangement. The learned languages 
are not fo much ftudied as they were, and 
probably will be lefs attended to than they 
re; but why fhould thofe who are ardent 
in the purfu:t of real knowledge be per- 
petually expofed to the fupercilious de- 
rifion of pedants, who are in every impct- 
tant refpect fo much their inferiors ? 
YiGnys cee ue 
—ea 
To the Editor of the Mouthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR correfpondent, Chariclo, at the 
conclufion of his complaint réfpeSe 
ing -Antisomianifm, has this remark: 
‘* The Nomian Chriftians, or thofe who re« 
ceive the law of Mefes as of divine autho- 
rity, have, in all ages of the church, found 
it dificult to juftiy their ceahng tojudaize.”” 
I cannot, I confefs, be of that. cpinioa, 
for the three foilowing-reafens : 
Firft, what was the Molaic law buta 
fyftem of regulations, which the leader of 
the Jews had in charge to deliver to that 
people,and, cn condition of obeying which, 
they, and they only, were promifed many 
temporal bleflings? The Jews were to be 
kept feparate, and to have no religious tn- 
tercourfe with other nations. 
Second, I fee no realon to deny the pro- 
bability of a divine revelation, from the 
circumfance of its beine confined in its 
obligations toa certain period of time, acd 
to one particular nation only, At leat, 
this remains yet to be proved. 
Third, At the council, 
apofties at Jerufaiem, Agts xv, on the very 
queftion about circumcifing and keeving 
the lawof Moles, a decree was fent tothe 
brethren, in thefe terms: ‘“ It fecmed 
good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to 
Jay upon you no greater burden then thefe 
neceflary things: that ye abftain from 
meats offered to idols, and from biced, 
and from things flrang!ed, and from for 
nication.” 
I might adduce other arguments for the 
difcontinuance of Judaic obfervances; but 
pethaps, thefe may be deemed firfficient. 1f 
any of your learned-readers can furnifh 
faither iliuftration on this fubject, I thould 
6F conficer 
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