180.) 
young gentleman, educated as we fuppofe 
the other to have been, in fucceffion from 
the Catholic Chapel in Golden-fquare to 
Sc. Paul’s ; mind not his flumberings in the 
city churches, nor difregard his attention 
to the truly evangelical preacher in Lom- 
bard ftreet; let him fit with you at the 
Quaker’s Meeting, and liften to the fongs 
of Zion at the Synagogue’; Rowland Hill’s 
Chapel fhould not be negleéted.; and, if 
the rites of the Greek Church are any 
where performed, Jet him be among the 
by-ftanders. . 1f a vacant ftare accompa- 
nies him through this progrefs, fend him 
-inftantly to the circles of fathion; they 
will improve it into becoming eafe and 
negligent infipidity. But does he afx one 
fingle queftion ? Does, he perceive a res 
femblance in the rites of oppofite churches ? 
Is he curious to-know the reaion.of that 
refemblance, and the difference. alfo ?>— 
Give him information—lead him .to the 
beft fources—fhew him how far they each 
agree with, or differ from, that facred code 
which ought to be their bond of union, 
inftead of the pretext for feparation. | Car- 
ry him in the fame manner to the courts 
of law, the houfes of parliament, the 
meetings of the common-hill, the refort of 
the Exchange, the filence of the Bank, che 
buftle of the Cuftom-houfe, the roarings 
of the ftock-jobbers.—Above all, fhew him 
the magnificence of London, the library 
of its fovereign, the elegance of its 
ftreets, the darknefs, the mifery, the fqua- 
lid poverty, of its alleys and courts.— 
Shew him how nearly unitedthefe are all 
to each other.—Teach him that the inha- 
bitant of the hovel and the palace are made 
by circumftances: point out to him in 
what they agree, and in what they differ. 
Do ail this, and, at the end of three years, 
the two young gentlemen fhali form the 
contraft difplayed by the dogs of Socrates, 
——the one fhall receive all the enjoyments 
that fhew and wealth and grandeur can be- 
ftew: the other, in the midft of every op- 
portunity of gratifying the imagination 
and the fenfes, fhall be*devoured by ex- 
nui. e 
As the two characters above-mentioned 
have been formed by circumftances, that 
of the nation is changed in the fame man- 
ner. In England the phenomena are 
ftriking, but too numerous for me’at pre- 
fent to dwell upon. Iwill mention only two. 
TheMorningPoft kindly tells us every day, 
how many hundred people werecrowded to- 
sae to fee the world, and to be {queezed. 
r. Hawes, avery celebrated, and deferv- 
MONTHLY MAG, NO. 73. 
Queries refpecting Canals. 
405 
edly celebrated,. writer among the evange- 
lical clergy, tells us,in his Church Hiftory, 
that within three years lately five hundred 
new places of worfhip have been eftablithed. 
From the Morning Poft I eftimate an an- 
nual finking of at leaft one thoufand 
perfons into infipidity, ftupidity; and 
from Dr. Hawes’s account, allowing only 
ten to each chapel, I prefume that five 
thoufand are annually raifed from the mafs 
of inert matter to different degrees. of 
rank amongtt intelligent beings. On the 
refalt of, the,procefs,, I do not pretend to 
{fpeculate, yet I think I could {peak povuerle 
cuveloetve Your’s,. &c. 
VEATORs » 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE fubje&t of Canals not being yet 
mentioned in your very pepular 
‘Magazine, I fhall be much obliged to any 
of your Correfpondents who. will favour 
me, through it, with accounts of fuch as 
have been formed, or bills paffed for, fince 
Mr. Phillips’s ingenious Hiftory of them 
in 17923 1 prefs this fubjec&t more parti- 
cularly on your readers, from the confide-~ 
ration, that, even fhoulda general Inclofure 
Bill pafs (an event moft ardently to. be 
wifhed for), there muft of neceflity remain 
many thoufand acres of. wafte-groundy 
even in the four counties only of Durham, 
Northumberland, Wefimoreland, and Cum- 
berland.; and how muchkmore in Scotland 
impoffible to be cultivated until canals are 
eftablifhed in the North of England, and 
through Scotland! Perhaps what may be 
termed a GENERAL CaNnaL BiLu might 
be equally as ufeful asa Genera In- 
CLOSURE BiLL. Would it; Mr. Editor, 
be too much condefcenfion in our Govern- 
ment to follow the example of China and 
Holland, and contribute a part at leaft in 
fuch undertakings? Our rulers have offer- 
ed bounties on the importation of grain, 
or, in other words, for the increafed cul- 
tivation of foreign countries; would it 
not be more efficacious to transfer at a- 
proper period (and even at prefent to de- 
clare it) thofe bounties on foreign producey 
and in effeét on foreign cultivation, to one 
on every acre of ground, at prefent unculti- 
vated, that may be got under the plough, 
and for every frefh mile of inland naviga- 
tion that may be effected in the united 
kingdom ? Iam, Sir, 
Newca/file, Your’s, &c. 
April 28, 1801. Joun CLENNELL. 
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