ee Anwnal Englifh Publications claffed, 
vant ados, that he fhauld do this. great 
thiig Pe 
Where then thal! we feek for the caufe 
of this dreadful cataftrophe, if not in the 
very nature of the contract itfelf? Are 
we not juftified in fuppofing that this man, 
like many other unprincipled men, might: 
have paffed through life unftigmatifed by 
any act of fingular atrocity, had not a 
power like that which is given to a matter 
over a poor unfriended parifh-apprentice, 
fupplied the temptation? And if fuch 
be its operation on the character of the 
mafter, and fuch the miferies. whichy it 
may entail on the fervant, what fhall 
we fay of the continuance of the prac- 
tice ? . 
That a fufpicion of the fatal operation 
of contra@ts of this fort on the human 
heart, had ftruck the mind of Mr. Juftice 
Grofe when pronouncing fentence on the 
culprit, feems, I think, to be implied by 
his faying, that ¢* the order made by the 
Kent-magiftrates, if purfued, may, in fome 
refpeis, in future, remedy the evil com- 
plained of.” 
Certain however itis, that the inftance 
under contemplation is by no means a fo- 
litary inftance. Children bound appren- 
tice for their labour, and more efpecially 
girls, whether by a charity-fchool, by the 
Foundling-hofpital, or by their refpective 
, puifhes, are always liable to be, and in 
fa& generally are, in fome refpect or 
cther, unkindly, if not cruelly, treated ; 
and the writer of this paper conceives her- 
felf fully authorized to affirm, “having 
paid fome attention to the fubject, that 
how much foever, by the adeption of wife 
and humane regulations, their fituation 
may be ameliorated, yet, that while hu- 
man nature and the ftate of fociety re- 
main what they are at prefent, children fo 
bound will be lefs likely than others to 
condu& themfelves well, and muft always 
be expofed toimproper and unkind, if not to 
very cruel, treatment. May fhe be permitted 
to refer, for the reafoning on which this 
afiertion is founded, to an account of two 
charity-{fchools in the city of York, lately 
publithed by herfelf, in which the cafe of 
apprenticefhips for labour is pretty fully 
confidered, and the good effects exemplified 
of entirely abolifhing the praétice ? 
In hope of calling the attention of the 
liberal and humane to a fubject which the 
firft law authority in the kingdom has de- 
* 2 Kings, 10, 23, 
[ Aus. i e 
clared to be ‘¢an employment worthy of the: 
higheft charaéters.”” Iam, Yours, &c. 
York, Funé 305 1801. ; C. CaPPE. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Mavazine. 
SIR, abit 
DARE fay few literary men have been 
4 in company without hearing the quef- 
tion afked frequently, what would it cof 
to purchafe all the new publications of a 
year? The work entitled Aznals of Phi- 
lofophy and Literature has enabled me_to 
aniwer that queftion, and beneath will be 
‘found an account of the number and 
value of all the works, whether books or 
pamphiets, publifhed in London in the 
year 1800. I cannot help remarking how 
nearly the total comcides with Wendi- 
born’s Account, publifhed in 1791, who 
eftimated them at feven hundred. With, 
ee to the value, it muft be obferved 
thaf the price is taken in boards. 
Yours, &c. 
A ConsTANT READER. 
NUMBER a@zd CosT of all the NEW PUB- 
LiCATIONS, PUBLISHED in LONDON, - 
during the YEAR 1800. te i 
In Agriculture, 18 books, ee 
amounting to ~ - - 6 60 
Antiquities, 15 “ Say dei es 
Arts, Ufeful and Fine, 21. Oy, Have 
Biography, 13 - - 4 Fis 
Chemiitry, ditto - ~ 9 06 oo 
Diétionaries, Grammars, and 
books of Education, 38 Yn 
Dramatic, 42 - 612 0 
Ethics and Metaphyfics, 6 219) 0" 
Hiftory, 24 - - 20.076 
Law, 24 
Trials at Law, 7 : ee 
Mathematics, 5 ~ - - 242.0 
Medicine, Surgery, &c. 
66 - ae See: Clee ie as > 
Mifcéllaneous, 34. - - 78) 246 
Natural Hiftory, 9 ~ T 1g, 6 
Novels, 40 > about 2c 0 0 
Philofophy, 9 ~ = ee 
Philology, 12 212 0 
Poetry (including Tranflations) 
68 2 i a ae 
Politics and Political Economy 
EIQ? pape, ee 
Theology, 43 6: 
Sermons, 55 ce Vi 
Voyages and Travels 20 16 ¥0 0. 
£230 5 0 
Total number, 693. 
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