1604.] 
tion of the ch'ldren when they were taken 
up? Whether their parents had not fent 
them to the hofpitals to ‘pare themfelves 
the anguith of feeing them die before 
their eyes, or to iave the expences of a 
funeral? Another ground of his diflike 
is, that an offer wat made to the French 
government of -ffitance, in order orcfue 
‘a great number of tne defer'ed children 
from death, and it was refuled. Nothing 
was neverthelefs more eafy. It went to 
eftabl fh a governor of the children nota 
year od 5 only it was necefl ry, chat this 
governor fhould be a phyficiam; without 
doubt to adminifter, according to the 
formulas of the author, bart/hora pbhilofo- 
phically prepared, &c. 
e ought not, in my opinion, to feek 
to make ourlelves ufeful by fuch clamours. 
As to myielf, T embrace the opsortuimty 
of the Jaft obtervations, waich I have 
offered on thele hofpiials, to repeat, in 
explicit terms, a declaration, the different 
parts of which I have often expreffed. 
When I have remarked tome faults in 
the adminiftranon of the eftablithments 
of humanity, I have never pretended 
that thefe faults attached to all hoipi- 
tals; and, when I have fpecified {ome 
practices which 1] did not approve as 
<ommon, it was very far from my defign 
to be underitood as taying, that there was 
no excep'ion. In the iecona place, a great 
pat of the errors of the managements, 
which Lobferved, did not arife from fauits 
to be imputed to the directors, but were 
the effects of caufes, of which they were 
not maiters. 1 admired in all the pref 
dents an einulation and zeal to form and 
improve humane eft.blifhments. Many 
f them are ailiited by men full of zeal 
and information. Others have not been 
fo happy as to meet with fuch good coad- 
jutors. But in generalythere is so faiiure 
of a detire «© Go good, In many places, 
» there is need of an‘increafe of krowledge, 
and we muft patiently wait for the etfects 
of experience and of gsod exampkcs, 
ITreturn, fora moment, to the city of 
Amiens. In running over it to wilit the 
eltablifhments, of which I have given an 
Account, we pals by three fine walks 
formed on the ramparts by the demoli- 
tion of old walls and uleieis batiions. 
The courfe or walk of Hautoy is of a 
moderaie length, but it is well planted, 
well awed, and borders on the Somme. 
The wharf on this river is very: {mall : 
they with to enlarge it. Near the wharf 
is a hydraulic machine, sv.ich raifes the 
water and ditiributes st over all quarters 
of the town, where iccis-extremely ter- 
viceable to many manufactories. 
machine is very fimple, A great wheel, 
Account of Amiens—Queriess 
The. 
the axle of which is furnifhed with four 
excentric circles of caft iron, moves the 
flyers, that diaw up and let-down the 
pitors. There is tearcely any expence 
in keeping it in repair: but the moving 
"power is very confiderable ; for the wheel 
is of a large diameter, and is fet in mo- 
tion by a ftrong current of water. 
There are iome fine edifices in this 
town: firft the cathedral, juftly celebrat- 
ed. It has vot fuffered during the revo- 
Jution, and is yet very finely ormamented : 
then che corn-market, well built: the 
governor’s houle, built on a good plan, 
tour years fince, to be the houfe of jurif- 
diction, by Mi d*Agay. The popala+ 
tion is about forty thoufand fouls, and it 
is an active town. A great inconvenience 
is, that they are obliged to burn turf for 
want of wood, which is {carce and dear. 
Tis is difagveeable fuel. It produces a 
thick {moke, watch fpreads through the 
houfes, and penetrates into the plaifter 
and even the bricks. It is not fufficient 
to wath, to {erape, and to woite- wath 
again, as in countries. where they barn 
coal; iz is neceflary to point the walis 
avain, and to lay on them anew platter. 
EE 
To the Editor of the Manthly Magazine. 
SIR, ‘ 
BEG to inform a Conftant Reader, 
_ that in the hinis relative to a fuppofed 
portrait of Pope, paintea by Arjaud, the 
objectionable paflaze fhould have been :— 
“‘ Had the felicity of cepyrag the portrait 
of another great genius, Shakeipeare, 
which 1 iuppoie rmauit bea true likenels, 
though it is overlooked.” 
My reafon for faying everlsoked is, the 
portraits for the latt editions of Snake- 
ipeare’s. Works have been taken from 
engravings by Marfhall and Dreefhout, 
both very coarfé artilts. But the picture 
from which B. Arlaud copied the por- 
trait prefixes, to Pupe’s edition, was an 
original piccuse, and probably in the pol 
fellion of Pope;—perhaps fome of your 
Correfpondents may be able to inform me 
into whofe hands it came after his death, 
and whether it {itil exsits. F. A. 
To the Editor of the whonthly Magaxize. 
SIR, 
/ SHALL be much obliged to any of > 
your learned correlpondents, who will 
be fo good as to inform ’me, through the © 
channel of your interetting Milccllanyy 
whether any, and what ule was mace m4 
‘the word ?Ayaracis by any Greek authors 
before the Chriitiin eva, Iam Su, 
. : Your conftant reader, 
Jan. 14, 1804. Ss. 
G & e £uUFr 
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