go... 
of weight allow .173 inches of depth for 
the rain, or 151: 26:: oz. of inereafe: 
inches depth nearly. 
It fhould be remembered, when any 
perfon communicates to the public their 
journal of rain-gauge, to fay particularly 
how high from the ground the gauge is 
fixed, and it ought not to be near any ob- 
jek higher than itfelf, fo as to be aftected 
by it. 
Being very defirous of adding an‘hy- 
grometer 4nd anemometer to my journal, I 
fhould efteem it a favour of any of your 
correfpondents to direct me where to pro- 
cure a fimple one of each that will hi 
comparifon with others. 
Yours, &c. 
. Leighton, 
Fan. 10, 1801. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sIR, 
HE prefent combinations amongst 
the j apne men: of different branche 
are more alarming than they are furpriiing 
and certainly it is the duty of the legifla- 
ture to enquire into the caufe, and apply a 
remedy. 
Combinations are extremly dangerous 
things, and therefore great care fhould 
be taken to prevent them 5; yet there mult 
be fome mode of raifing the price of la- 
hour, in order to keep pace with the price 
ef the neccflaries of life. Dr... Adam 
ra whole opinions nave been fo religi- 
ufly adhered to refpecting liberty “of 
ried and foreftalling, lays, that a country 
cannot long exift, where “the wages of la- 
bour are not fufficient to enable a man, 
working at common labour without ‘fkill 
({uch as a bricklayer’s labourer) to main- 
tain himfelf, a wife, and three children. 
When that is not the cafe, people die for 
want, and the country ts gradually depo- 
pulated, either from ‘celibacy, or want of 
means to raife the new generatio 
I am therefcre clear, that at Pccttit 
fome relief is neceflary, and I mutt beg 
leave to obferve, that if Dr. Smith’s-doc- 
trines are to be followed in one thing, 
they flould be fo in another aifo; but at 
prelent it is not prec ifely fo, not indeed 
owing to any bad intention, nor even will 
I fay negleét, of our laweivers, I bat to pe- 
culiar circumfta ances. A remedy is not 
however lJefs neceffary'on that account. 
Journeymen, trom their very fituation, 
from their numbers, and their only means 
of expreffing their with being by public 
On Regulating Wages of Workmen. 
B. BEVAN. | 
[ Feb. r,. 
or open aéts, having been always liable to 
combine together, as well as to have their 
mutions watched; Jaws have been long 
fince made to prevent the dreadful effects 
that would refult from their fuccefs in fuch 
combinations:-- Whereas the mafter-trade{— 
men can concert meafures quickly, and 
without producing any alarm, in confe- 
quence of which they have never excited 
any ; and no laws have been thought of 
relative tothem, though the prices of i iron, 
and many of the other ftaple articles of 
this country, have been fettled regularly at 
public meetings. of the mafters and dea- 
lers. 
Thus it is that the one party has called 
the attention of the legiflature and the other 
has not; befides which, thefe fame maf 
ters whe. fettle to raife an article, fettle to 
fall it when it is neceflary or eames 2 
but as the journeymen never ‘could be ex- 
pected to do this, they cannot be put on 
the fame footing. Though then they can- 
not obtain juftice by the {ame means; that 
ought not to prevent them from obtaining 
juice, and fome expedient fhould be 
fought after. 
F would keep in mind, in fearching fora 
means of regulating wages, the difference 
between a tempurary rile ef prices, and 
that gradual and lafting one that has beer 
going on for feveral centuries ;-and it does 
eccur to me that there might be fuch 2 
thing as an arbitration cneee to,confifting 
of one- third mafiers,one- third journeymen, 
and one-third men of fome other profeffion; 
for then, as it would be the intereft of the 
mafters and journeymen to come to fome 
ec Ga and of the third party to do ju 
tice to-both, fomething like a fair and ami= 
cable adjuftment would take place, 
In matters that are not of a nature to be | 
fettled either by law or general regulation, 
I am always for employing fome middle 
expedient, that, without inflaming the 
minds of the parties, will end i as nearly 
as pofiole obtaining juftice for both. ~ 
Ass it is the bufinefs and intereft of man- 
kind to find out fome peaceable and fair - 
means of doing whatever mutt of neceffity 
be done, and I think this is a cafe of that 
fort; 1 with fome of your numerous and in- 
genious corref{pondenis would try -to im- 
prove on this hint, which, as far-as I 
know, is entirely new, and F hope might 
be tried without any danger. 
Tam, Sir; 
‘ Yours, &e. 
PHILANTHROPOS. 
Fan. 9, 1801. ai 
Londons 
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