1807.] Objervations made during.a Tour m the United States. 
popular prejudice, fometimes a learned 
prejudice, worfe than the popular preju- 
dice ; and unluckily there are prejudices 
even worfe than learned prejudices. What 
Michaélis meant by the latter fort of 
prejudices he has not mentioned, but it 
is evident that animofity, jealoujy, party- 
Spirit, and other mean paffions, mult be 
the principal features of his noa-de- 
{cript.” 
Epping, 
Feb. 1807. 
Isaac Payne. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
- SiR, 
HAVE to propofe’a plan, by infert- 
ing which I flatter myfelf you will 
ferve the public. We have numberlefs 
ingenious men, whofe ideas and inven- 
tions would do honour to themferves and 
country were they introduced and known. 
In order that they may be fo, I propofe 
to them to fend me their models, plans, 
or deferiptions, and [I will with pleafure 
Gf they are not too large for removal) 
exhibit them in the courfes of lectures, 
which I am conitantly reading in the 
town and country; and by explaining 
them, and giving them every poilible 
ublicity, the friends of fcience would 
five the means of feeing them, and 
knowing where the machine, invention, 
&c. is to be had. 
I devote much of my Courfe of Ex- 
perimental Philofophy to the mechanical 
and chemical departments, and have no 
other objeét in view than ferving the 
ingenious and negletted, by introducing 
and recommending, where I confcienti-_ 
oufly can, fuch works as feem likely to 
prove ferviceable to fociety. 
Tam, Sir, &c. D.F Warxer. 
5, Glocefier-fireet, Portman-/quare, 
Feb. 23, 1807. 
ae 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
OBSERVATIONS made during ad TOUR 
through the UNITED STATES Of AME- 
RICA.—NO. XV. 
“HE Mohaning branch of the Beevor 
is navigable for {mall craft as high 
up as Warren, the county town, at which 
the courts of juftice for Trumbull county 
are held. Warren is laid out on a large 
feale, but the growth of the town has 
been reftrained in confeguence of a di- 
Vifion of fentiment as to the future fub- 
divifion of the county. It was a quef- 
tion, whether the county of Trumbull 
fhould be divided into four or fix ¢coua- 
“Montuty Mac. No. 185. 
237 
ties; in the latter cafe, Younger Town 
would be the feat of juftice inftead of 
Warren. In a country governed like the 
United States, where the accommodation 
and happinefs of the governed con{titute 
the fole object of thofe who adminifter 
the government, it cannot be denied 
that the nearer juitice is carried to the 
inhabitants the more that object is ob- 
tained. Vora juryman or witnefs to be 
compelled to travel from thirty to fixty 
miles is a grievance ; and juftice, there- 
fore, ought always to be carried to the 
people, rather than the people be com- 
pelled to attend at diftant feats of juftice: 
yet, todivide Trumbull into fix counties 
appears too much to fubdivide it, and 
to compell on a new county too heavy 
an expence for the erection of court- 
houfes, jails, and other neceffary appen- 
dages on the feat of juftice. To divide 
it into four counties would probably an- 
{wer every good purpofe to the mbhabi- 
tants, and continue Warren the princi- 
pal town of a county ; ‘this would be alfo 
ftriétly might, as many of its inhabitants 
nave fettled therein under that expetta- 
tion. When Iwas in Warren, it con- 
tained fixty-four families. The mver has 
abundance of fifth, and its banks are 
well ftocked with cray-iifh. Mott of the 
buildings were log-houfes, though feveral 
handfome frame-loufes, built with the 
white poplar, or, as it is here called, the 
fattin wood (1 prefume, from its great 
gloffinefs and fmoothnefs), were erected 
or erecting. Town-lots in Warren, of 
16 by 24 rods, fold for 175 dollars ; and 
the land about half a mile from the 
town, at Gx dollarsthe acre. In weftern 
America, the feat of juftice is always the 
feat of butinefs, and the refidence of 
ftore-keepers, medical men, lawyers, &c. 
&c. When I was at Warren, there weré 
three very good ftores in the town: one, 
which contained at leaft $000 dollars’ 
worth of goods, was unfinifhed, and had 
neither a door to it, nor glafs to the win- 
dows, yet no perfon thought of fleeping 
in it. ‘The fact appears to be, that man 
is not neceffarily a depredator upon man: 
it is government alone, when it robs him 
of the profits of his induftry, compells 
him to be the piunderer of his neighbour, 
nor can barbarous punifhment prevent 
it. The framers of fach laws, aware of 
their imjuftice, veft commonly with the 
executive the power of pardoning : hence 
the criminal wever lofes the hope ef 
efcaping punifument, and too frequently 
the depredator, unpunifhed, is again let 
loofe upon fociety. Hence fanguinary 
Hh punifhment 
