oo ee baile — 3 pul 
a ‘ yy. 
: 
1801,7" 
for the company of ladies of fufpicious and 
fufpe&ted character; if, when cenfured, his 
eyes appear inflamed, his fpeech quick and 
loud, and the word, ** fword”’ be men- 
tioned, it is a ftrong prefumption, that if 
there is not already fomewhat wrong about 
his bead, there foon will be. ; 
When a couple, jut fet up in bufinefs, 
by the affiftance of theirfriends, and prin- 
cipally with borrowed money, launch out 
in an expenfive ftyle of living, giving 
fafhionable dinners, keeping late hours, 
and frequenting public places, inftead of 
finding or feeking comfort or quiet at 
home, you may be certain that the huf- 
band at leaft is zon compos. 
hen you meet with a man who pof- 
feffed an hundred thoufand pounds acquired 
by trade, and yet will not be content, but 
rifks the whole in a fpeculation (whether to 
enrich himfelf, or bergar his neighbour, is 
not material), and finds no happinefs but in 
ideas of accumulation, in “¢ adding houfe 
to houfe and field: to field,” without any 
purpofe of public benefit, of enlarged be- 
nevolence, or even of private charity, it is 
high time that his affairs were ae into 
the hands of truéeés for the benefit of his 
family, and the mortification of the public 
executioner. 
When a parent allows his fons as much 
Money as they can f{pend, or are pleafed to 
demand; when he delights to fee them 
well. mounted, rather than well-taught, and 
enter with fpirit into the arcana and my‘fte- 
ries of fafhionable life; when he confiders 
keeping a girl as feeing the world, and 
the violation of confidence as an affair of 
gallantry ; there is an immediate and very 
preffing néceffity of applying to the court 
of chancery to appoiut proper guardians 
for thefe forlorn youths during their fa- 
ther’s melancholy incapacity. 
When a preacher of the gofpel is feen 
lefs in the pulpit than in the club-room, 
dealing more in cards than doétrines, ex- 
claiming oftener in oaths than in pious in- 
dignation, denying in a€tions the virtues 
he recommends in words, difgracing the 
belief to which he has fworn, and fleecing 
the flock he was appointed to feed ; I never 
entertain any doubt of madne/s in fuch a 
cafe, and the public good would require 
Siripping and confinement ; yet what fhould 
be the place of confinement has been a dif- 
puted point, becaufe in this inftance there 
is fuch a mixture of rogue and fool, that 
it would be very difficult to decide on the. 
refpective claims of Bethlem and New- 
gate. j bhi 
_ When a man, conneéted with another 
in partnerfhip and a trade flourifhing by 
Lunatics out of Hofpitals. ' 
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its natural progrefs, is feen whifpering 
with a particular clafs of men in a certain 
Alley near the Bank, and that without the 
knowledge of his partner, his /uzacy may 
be afcertained by his frequently ufing the 
wild and incoherent words, ‘* bull account 
—-bear account—an eighth—a quarter 
{crip—-omnium,’” &c. This fpecies of 
madnefs is remarkable for being attended 
with /amene/s. 
- I might add to this lit of fymptoms a 
few, others, but I perceive my letter is al- 
ready extended rather too far; I fhould 
elfe, perhaps, have noticed fome of our 
“new philofophers ; but they have taken fo 
rouch pains to defcribe their own cafes, that 
they are now fufficiently known, and fome 
of them, I hope, in a way of recovery. [ 
fhall, therefore, only add, that if the pub- 
lic attention be drawn to the fubject of this 
letter, it will be preper té*confider of raif- 
ing a fund for the erection Of receptacles 
fusiiciently capacious for the ebjeéts I have 
recommended; and this, I truft, will not 
be difficult. The liberality of the public 
is never wanting, when the objeét is that 
of pure benevolence ; but here there would 
be fuch a return in the’articles of public, 
family, and individual fafety and happi- 
nefs, that I cannot defpair of a handfome 
fubfeription. But it is not neceflary to 
dweil at prefent on this topic. 
I am yours, &c. 
Oppofite Moorfields, Ox. OLpsTiLe, 
March 1801. ~ 
uw ere 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir, 
Sometime ago troubled you with a dif- 
cuffion upon the words /zyal and loyalty, 
which I introduced with an obfervation 
concerning the particular inflection words 
receive in their meaning from the -charac- 
ter and way of thinxing of the perfons 
ufing them. TI intend at prefent further 
to illuftrate this pofition by fome remarks 
on the word people and its different fie- 
nifications. : 
The Latin populus, (whence people is 
abvioufly derived) like the Greek Supr0e, 
properly and ftrily fignifies the whole. 
body of anation or civil community? Thae 
this is its primary meaning cannot be 
doubted, when we obferve its application 
to fuch a body fpoken of in general 
terms. -For though nothing is more fa- 
miliar to a reader of Latin than the Sena- 
tus Populusque Romanus, yet this limited 
fenfe is polterior to the former; and the 
populus here only denotes a part of the 
community, becaule the fexatus is taken 
out of its itis, in faét, all the reft. In 
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