1809.] 
to find it against the next day; but the 
next day he was forced to confess, that a 
man might be ignorant of the fact with- 
out being afool. It is not yet discovered. 
For the Morning Herald, 
INO. LE, 
Mr. Eprror,—in answer to your cor- 
respondent Q. I. send for your insertion, 
an extract from the third canto, part.the 
third of Hudibras, (lines 235 to 244) 
which I take to have been the original 
from whence the passage he alludes to 
was taken. 
6¢ Beside our bangs of man and beast, 
Are fit for nothing now but rest, 
And-for a while will not be able 
To rally, and prove serviceable 5 
And therefore I, with reason, chose 
‘This stratagem to amuse our foes, 
‘To naake an hon’rable retreat, 
And wave a total sure defeat ; 
For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that’s slain.” 
, Your’s, &c. 
A Constant READER. 
For the Morning Herald. 
No. [f1, 
Mr. Epiror,—I am extremely happy 
to inform your correspondent Q. that 
Dedsley is the old fool, and also that the 
author of those beautiful lines in your to 
day’s paper, is not known; but that they 
are to be found in Pearch’s Collection of 
Poems, Sd vol. 2d edit. page 84. I con- 
fess, a man may be ignorant of a fact, 
without being a fool; but a fool is always 
ignorant, and denies it too. 
Your's, &c. 
Portus. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
¥F late, I have seen Mr, Hall’s name 
not unfrequently in your valuable 
miscellany. In page 28, of what he 
terms Discoveries respecting Ice, Heat, 
and Cold, published the other year, he 
teils us, “that salmon deposit the 
ova that produce their young in shallow 
water, where they find ice already form- 
ed; or where instinct tells them, that 
such will soon be the case. Under the 
covert, (he says) to us a cold, but to 
them a genial bed, the males throw out 
their spawn; which, being instantly taken 
in at the mouth by the females, always 
attending upon these occasions, and 
proceeding, not to the stomach, but to a 
' Montrury Mac, 185, 
Observations on the Poor Laws, & Ce 439 
different quarter, impregnates, in a few 
days, the millions of ova she contains. 
These having been thrown out by. her 
in shallow places, where instinct tells her 
the air, in the act-of freezing, will reach 
them; she immediately covers them, and 
returns; and the little animal, contained 
In cach ova, is in a short time able to 
swim and shift for itself. ‘He adds, page 
29,” it is uniformly found that the ova of 
the female, of many, if not of all the 
tribes of oviparous fishes, are impreg= 
nated before thrown gut.” 
The impregnation of the ova of fishes, 
before their being thrown out by the 
female, is te me, I confess, a new docs 
trine, and, as I have my doubts about it. 
I should be glad to know if this reverend 
correspondent of your’s, or any of your 
readers, can tell me whether it be true or 
false. Your’s, &c. 
A New CorresPONDENTs 
Hackney, Middlesex, May 2,1809. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
OBSERVATIONS on the POOR LAWS, and on 
the most effectual MEans of providing 
jor the poor. 
(Continued from p. 354.) 
T is manifest from the preambles and 
provisions of the several acts, passed 
for the better ordering of the poor, that 
the legislature always regarded their con~ 
dition with much consideration and soli- 
citude, and never remitted its endea- 
‘vours to find cut and enforce the best 
system of laws, as it appeared at the 
time, for their relief and management, 
consistently with the public welfare. 
Employment for all the able, and relief 
for the unable poor, were the injunctions 
of the act of the 43d Eliz. as we have 
seen, and the present enormous assess- 
ments for their maintenance are ground 
ed on a departure from these injunc~ 
tions of the statute, cn a neglect of set- 
ting to work the parish poor, children, 
adults,-and aged, according to their abi- 
lities; and the weight of this heavy tax 
on the community will never be mate= 
rially lightened but by a national esta~ 
blishment, whereby the overseers of pa 
rishes may be able to refer every one 
under their care, man, woman, and 
child, idle and in want, and neither sick 
hor impotent, to a place where divers 
works are carried on and prosecuted on 
.a system of regular and productive in- 
dustry, and so diversified, that the in- 
mates, according to their ages and sexes, 
may be sorted together in the perform. 
4M ance 
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