1810.] Letters of a Wanderer through 
mritten and said, and with justice, against 
the common practice of transporting 
such numbers of infant paupers to the 
cotton manufactories, where they have 
been too generally doomed to a life of 
misery. Such a destination indeéd for 
their necessary mainienance would be 
unobjectionable, on the conditions of 
their parent’s approbation, and the obhi- 
gations of thase who have so great a pro- 
fit on the labour of the children, to take 
due care of them, and to provide, in cer- 
tain cases, for their return to their na- 
tive home. Asto the power of parish. 
officers to take childen against the con- 
sent of their parents, and send them to a 
distant part of the country, into an em- 
ployment unfavourable to their health, 
and probably for their lives, it too much 
resembles the sale of young slaves in our 
colonies, and is a practice on which the 
friends of humanity should keep a watch-: 
ful eye. In J. W. G.’s case, indepen- 
dently of right, surely the induigence 
would have been reasonable, of the friend 
who offered, being permitted to take and 
provide for the girl. al 
With respect to aremedy, perhap$; on 
application, the magistracy would inter- 
fere; or a court of justice could give re- 
lief; as the judge would, in a late in- 
stance, have compelled the restoration 
of the young Jew convert to his father, 
but for the boy’s own discretion, he 
having attained his fourteenth year. But 
the best advice in my power to give, is 
an application of the father to sir Francis 
Burdett, the friend and patron of the 
poor, who would, should it appear to him 
eligible, undoubtedly move the House 
of Commons on the subject, and get 
relief, if relief be attainable, from the 
fountain-head; a mode which, beside, 
might have the farther and general 
use of settling the point of legality, and 
of checking those oppressions which 
must almost unavoidably take place, of 
the poor and helpless. It is one of our 
common-place boasts, that the law of 
England is equally just to the rich and 
the poor; at any rate, it ought to be our 
perpetual endeavour to realize in prac- 
‘tice, as far as possible, so just and excel- 
jent a maxim, InER Homo. 
a Ke 
For the Montily Magazine. 
LETTERS OF A WANDERER. 
LETTER I.—To a Friend. 
AVING formed a party to visit 
Matlock, we proceeded at an 
early hour one charming morning, to- 
wards that delightful spot, and having 
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i dreary uninviting tract of couns 
continued for several miles, 
we descended a hill, and entered on 
the rich and fertile vale that extends on 
either side the little town of Bakewell, 
which contains a few good-looking 
houses, anda handsome church, with a 
tolerable inn, and a pleasing appearance 
altogether of peculiar neatness, cleanli- 
ness, and beauty. 
Passing by the ancient mansion be- 
longing to the Rutland family, called 
Haddon Hall, we pursued our route from 
Bakewell through a charming valley te 
the village of Worksworth, when, enter- 
ing on the narrow glen where Matlock’s 
picturesque romantic dwellings. «adorn 
the mountain’s side, we shortly came in 
sight of that enchanting spot so. free 
quently deseribed by tourists, and so 
universally admired by every one posses= 
sing, or professing to possess, a taste for 
the picturesque beauties of nature. 
Soine years ago, [ am assured, that 
Matlock was infinitely more dese: ving of 
admiration, than since the increase of its 
buildings, and its haying become the’ 
resort of gay and fashionable visitors. 
Be that as it may, it still possesses a 
thousand charms, of which it is scarcely 
possible ‘for the pen or pencil to convey 
a just representation, ‘The waters are 
efficacious in cases of rheumatism, 
scurvy, and bile. ‘The baths are conve- 
intently situated, and well attended; and 
the water at the spring, has neither a 
smeli.nor taste that is disagreeable. At 
Buxton, there: are hetels and private 
lodging-houses, good public tables, and 
accomodations for persons of different 
classes and inclinations, 
Having partaken of a slight repast, we 
ordered supperata late hour in the even- 
ing, and comnienced our rambles round 
the environs of this so justly celebrated 
place, in which there is as singular a 
combination of grandeur and simplicity 
as itis possible to conceive. The vale, 
on one side of whose boundary the houses 
are entirely placed, is about three miles 
in length, in general narrow, and diver- 
sified by woods of finest verdure, rocks, 
wild and jutting précipices, and small 
enciosures fringed with trees of various 
kinds; while, in the centre of the narrow 
plain, the Derwent smoothly flows along, 
overhung by a profusion of luxuriant 
beech, and other drooping trees ; or here 
and there, with haste impetuous, dashes 
over falien fragments of the adjacent pre= 
cipices, forming miniature cascades, and 
contributing, by the whiteness of itsfoam, 
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