= 
on 
which the oseasional opening of ‘a win- 
dows but a partial and inadequate re- 
hef. . 
“It appears to me, this inconvenience 
will admit of an easy and simple remedy. 
My plan is to have a hole perforated 
through the centre of the ‘roof of the 
carriage, of three inches diameter, with 
2 tube or chininey, one or two inches 
long ahove the top of the same; into 
which tube a fine grating might be fixed, 
if necessary, to prevent the outside pas- 
sefvers putting any thing through. A 
slide might also be placed in a groove 
within the carriage, to enable‘the inside 
passengers to cluse the tube at pleasure. 
Liverpool, Your’s, &c. 
Muy 18, 1809. ~ VIATOR. 
EES 
To the Editor of the Monthlw Magazine, 
SIR, 
“> FVING in a parish! in’ which its 
poor ‘are employed in the picking 
ot Oakum, | wish to turn the attention 
of those who have the management of - 
them to some other mode of employ- 
ment, which may he profitable to the 
parish, and, at the same time, more use- 
ful to the persons employed. The pick- 
ing of oakum, it must be allowed, has 
its advantages. In the way the work is 
obtained in this parish, it is carried on 
without capital; there being no at in it, 
no instructors are necessary ; nor is any 
machinery wanted ; and al] who have the 
use of their hands, whether young or 
oid, are almost alike capable ot perform- 
Wg the business. But, with these ad- 
vantages, there are great objections to 
such a kind of employment. Nothing 
is learned by. it; and, from the nature of- 
the busmess, having nu occupation for 
the mind, it begets slothful habits, and 
generally a character, especially in the 
females, corresponding with the’ lowness 
of the employment. at 
A change of plan, however, I am well 
aware Is not to be effected, unless some 
gubstitute can be proposed, which shall 
be simple, unexpensive, and, at least, 
equally profitable. The information 
sought for, therefore, is—W hat has been 
done in any other parish, which, squaring 
with these ideas, ‘may be calculated to 
answer the endin view? Or, what kind 
of- work,-or manufacture, might he most 
easily introduced, and-at the least ex- 
peuse, and with the best chance of suc- 
cess, in a populous’ sea-port town, in” 
licu of the business objected to? 
lf any of your Correspondents can. 
furnish me with information on the sub- 
ject, and will have the goodness to send 
Mr. Eofft on Reform in Parliament. 
fAug. 1, 
it to the Monthly Magazine, or to com- 
municate it, by letter, through you, | 
shall feel myself obliged ro them, 
Your's, &c, 
June 5, 1809. W.N, 
—_——iae— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T is with utmost regret, IT observe 
there has been no effectual means 
devised for preserving the lives of indi. 
viduals, when in danger, by the running 
away of an affrighted horse in the lighter 
kind of vehicles, such as gigs, &c. The 
melancholy account of the death of Mr. 
Clarke (and many others) too much 
evinces the event of a preventative. The 
method, most likely to remedy it, would, . 
in my opin, be, by some mechanical. 
contrivance, which must be made so - 
that the persons in danger might get out 
behind, and then part from it by pushe 
ing themselves from it briskly, by a sis. 
milar means that boys disengage them- 
selves, when wishing to leave a coach in 
speed, Jumping out I always consider 
as particularly dangerous ;(the motion of 
the gig communicating a different one 
to the one you give yourself by jumping), 
which tends very much to throw you on 
your side or head : many suppose it very 
easy to jump a little forward, and alight 
safe: tis supposition; they will not 
find it so, on trial, The method of gets 
ting out behind strikes me as the mast. 
safe of any, having often tried it, when. 
the horse has been going very fast; and. 
was there steps from behind similar to. 
the sliding steps of coaches, I would 
answer willingly for my own safety, and 
those with me. 
Your’s, &c, 
SE 
| For the Monthly Magazine.. 
REFORM in PARRLIAMENT of the REPREe 
_ SENTATION of the Commons. 
UNDERSTAND, trom good autho- 
rity, that those who are friendly ta 
the plan, mean it to include rated house~ 
holders. 
all householders the better. 
- Iwas misinformed, by a friend, who. 
ARB 
The nearer it goes to include 
was himself mistaken, although his inti- 
macy with one, and acquaintance with 
another, of the oldest and best friends of 
Reform, made it very unlikely that it 
should be so. oe . 
What concurrence the plan which I 
have stated, has, I am at present uncer- 
tain. 
Major Cartwright. This I know explicit- 
ly from a letter which I received from 
ot Crate Sry . himself 
‘ 
It has not the concurrence of - 
