1809.] 
voit pas la mort qu’on appelle et qui va 
Je saisir au milieu de ce triste apparel, 
Qui sait combien d’enfants périssent 
victimes de l’extravagante sagesse d’un 
pere ou d’un maitre? Heureux d’ échap- 
per asa cruauté, le seul avantage qu’ils 
tirent des maux “qu'il leur a fait souffrir, 
est de mourir sans regretter la vic, dont 
iis n’ont connu og les tourments,”— 
Rousseau Einile, 2d. book. 
Your’s, &c. X. 
nel als 
To the Editor of the Monthl ly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N your miscellany of the 1st of Janu- 
ary, 1808, you gave a statement of 
prisoners, Boreaered to Newgate in 1862, 
and four following years; ere is one 
part of it to which I wish now to call 
the attention of seme of your readers, in 
order that they may be convinced of ihe 
mischiets which arise ina pecuulary Ways 
from suffering ‘brothels to remain, aud 
permitting prostitutes to walk the streets. 
atmight. If justice and humanity are not 
found of sufficient force, policy may be 
called in, in behalf of numbers of our in- 
nocent fellow-creatures, who may, and 
no doubt will, if some measures are not’ 
speedily adopted, fail victims to the arts 
ef vicious men. In the account above- 
mentioned, we imagine the article, ‘ Fe- 
males stealing from men’s persons,” to 
signify robberies either committed by 
prostitutes in the streets, or in houses of 
ill fame, onthe persons of their guilty 
associttes. The number in the five years 
amounted to one hundred and sixty-nine; 
as follows in 1802-—31 
18038—25 
1804—25 
1805—45 
1806-—45 
- Total 169 
The aumber of persons in the same 
period committed. for picking pockets, 
was 146, which appears worthy of notice, 
May we not with good reason conclude, 
that a great proportion of offences of the 
sort here noticed, never. become public, 
for there can he little doubt bat that 
many people, wha were robbed in this 
truly disgraceful PBL, would ag wish 
the affair. to be known. Ic might be 
more than a matter of mere curiosity, to 
liave the amount of the sums so stolen 
ascertained. . I do not mean to decide 
how far the present CXS sting | Inws are sal- 
ficient for the preyenti on.-of tenial¢: se- 
Mongury Mac. No. 108. 
Author of Gaidentia di Lucca. 237 
duction, but earnestly wish those whe 
have more legal knowledge than f[ 
have, would take pains to make them- 
selves *well acquainted with the subject, 
and point ‘out, in such manner, as inay 
seem to them most proper any defects 
which may be found. One alteration is 
most desirable, which is, that seduction 
under promise of marriage, or by. any 
artifice whatever, should be constituted 
an offence’ punishable by indictment. 
I wish to be referred to the best ac 
count of the speeches made in patliae 
ment by those members who opposed oe 
Marriage-act of 26 George IL, also the 
Loyal marriage-act. Le Bn 
february 10, 1809. 
EE 
To the Editor of, the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N a late Number of your Magazine, 
your ‘¢ Man of Letters,” in an ex- 
tract from his Port-fglio, very confidently 
asserts, “on the authority of uncontra= 
dicted tradition, ” that the Travels of Gau- 
dentio di Lucea, were written by Bishop 
Berkeley. It is, I think, a matter of 
little consequence; but I am able to tell 
your correspondent, who really was the 
author of those supposed Travels.° Why 
they were given to she. bishop I could 
never understand. He may then know, 
that the ‘‘ learned romance,” as he styles 
it, was written by a Mr. Simon Peering- 
ton, ‘a descendant of the ancient family. 
of that name, in the county of Hereford, 
anda clerg yman of the church of Renee 
My assertion rests on the testimony of 
many of his relations, now dead, among 
whom, his nee the late head of the 
family, a nd who was Lanes hy him, 
has often, in my hearing, said, that his 
uncle arate the work, and that he recol- 
lected many aa nces of the pub- 
lication’ The same gentleman was the 
author of wither works, to some of which 
he pat his name, which are, -The. ereat 
Duties of Life, and the Mosaic we as 
He was a man of k earning, and of much 
humour, and, secretly engaving in fhe 
ehties of hs day, wrote maily SODgS and 
satirical ballads, which! were circalated 
among the Jacobites, The singularities 
of his character, though inoffensive, were 
Aot few. The latter years of 
were spent in London, where 
ahout the middle of the last cen 
just rec pect to have seen him, a i. 
was struck by his hich stature, andthe 
gravity of his as spect. His. motave for 
wiiupg “ Gandentio di Aneca;? was to 
fi Pa raise 
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