AN 
only confequence which would refult from 
“the propofed removal, is fufficient to incite 
the inhabitants to effect fo defirable an ob- 
ject: but the advantages would be innu- 
merable; new ftreets would be opened, ele- 
gant buildings erected, where exhaufted 
induftry might refrefh itfelf with the love- 
~Tieft profpeéts of nature; villas would 
embellifh the approaches to the toun and 
ornament its appearance; the value of 
the adjacent land would increafe, and agri- 
culture would feel an additional incentive. 
But while we are indulging in thefe fancied 
improvements, we mult ftop to remark the 
negle&ted ftate of its public buildings: the 
town-houfe and guildhall are awkward and 
inelegant ; the bridges are mean, dangerous, 
and narrow. The tafte for mufic is fo 
‘much degenerated that even the Cathedral 
can fearcely be faid to poflefs an organ. 
Its public libraries are not fupported with 
the fpirit they require, and the ftrength of 
conftituted authority fometimes flumbers 
over petty vices and mifchievious. depre- 
dation. 
I have indulged, perhaps, on this fub- 
jet with too much prolixity ; if it be un- 
interefting to general readers, and appear 
{woln with imaginary confequence, my apo- 
logy mutt be, 
‘ That little things are great to little men.” 
Tho’ this effay will efcape the noticeofmany, 
it will claim, it-is to be hoped, the notice 
of fome whofe youthful days were paffed 
amid the fcenes here defcrived, who, tho’ 
now dwelling, like me, in adiftant country, 
yet fill retain a lively impreffion of ail 
that can endear rural beauty, friendfhip and 
| benevolence, to the human heart! 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
; SIR, 
HE propriety of giving women the 
| T fame pay as men, for aéting with 
equal fuccefs in the fame ftation, has long 
been fo forcibly impreffed upon my mind, 
that I cannot refft my inclination to give 
you the reafons for the opinion I have 
formed on the fubje@, in reply to the in- 
quiry of your ccrrefpendent S. S. 
Firft, Itis obvious that the abiurdity of 
cuftom can never overthrow or diminih 
the authority of the immutable law of juf- 
tice, which direéts that women. fhould re- 
ceive equairewards with men, for the fame 
fervices equally performed. 
Secoadly, The found policy of calling 
forth the abilities of every individual cf 
the community, for, the benefit of the 
whole, by the flimplus of an adequate 
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220 Equality of Wages between Males and Females. [April z, 
reward, is a principle that fhould be ex- 
tended to both fexes ; a change that would 
improve the female charaéter, and convert 
its prefent infignificancy into ufefulnefs. 
The ftage, the fine arts, and literary com- 
pofition, are the principal departments in 
which an equality of honour and profit. is 
to be obtained by the competiters of either 
fex; the good effects of which are vifible 
in the greater proportion of female excel- 
lence in thefe, than in the other profeffions 
_ of life, notwithftanding the ufual obftacles 
to fuccefs, from the want of a claffical edu- 
cation. - . | 
Thirdly, Humanity unites with policy, 
in enforcing the advantage of providing 
‘refources for women of all ranks; whereby 
they may gain anhcnourable fupport, when 
deprived of the cuftemary protectionof male 
relatives. rs 
Thefe reafons appear to me fufficiently 
conclufive, to authorize S. S. and his coad- 
jucors to pay the teachers of the fchool, 
over which they prefide, in proporticn to- 
their merits only, without regard to fex. 
The probability of exciting the miftreffes 
of the fchool to unufual exertions by this 
extraordinary aét of jultice may be added, 
and if fuccefsful, by a proporticnate 
improvement in the pupils, will do away 
the imputation of milapplying the funds 
of the inftitution. The inequality of 
the wages of men and women for the fame - 
fervices, is.a glaring evil, which ftands 
greatly in need cf reform. | This dif--. 
proportion doubtlefs had its origin in the 
early periods of fociety, when laborious 
works and military atchievements were 
alone held in eftimation: but in the pre-- 
fent advanced ftate of civilization, the cafe 
is altered, and intelicét and fkil have fu- 
perfeded the brutal efforts of mere 
flrength; the multiplied wants of our 
day have given value to a variety of ta- 
lents, which may be advantageoufly exer- 
cifed by either fex. oe No 
The interefts of morality require the abo- 
Kition of this abfurd and unjuft depreciation 
of female talent, as it certainly operates as 
a check to the exertions of women, and 
tends to multiply the herd of thofe un- 
happy frail-ones, who fall a prey to feduc- 
tion; and who, in their turn, become 
feducers, and inveigle cur fens, our bro- 
thers, and our hufbands, into the paths of 
deftru€tion. : at 
Fan. 15, 180%. F, NG. 
————a— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, é 
B AVING frequently been inftruéted. 
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