$82 Population —Faulty Pronunciation of Greek © Latin. | [Dee,J, 
what I am prevented from doing ; and in 
cafe of extraordinary fcarcity, you mutt 
dedc& fomewhat from your fuperfluities,: 
te enable me and mine to procure necefla- 
ries. Moreover, I muft have a little 
help when we are vifited by ficknefs 5; and if 
you think a little infruétion will render 
us more ufefal to you, it will be your 
part to: provide the means. Upon thefe 
‘terms I will rear girls to be your domeftic 
fervants, your fempitrefies, and laun- 
Grefies ; and ftout boys to fight for you, 
Wavigate your fhips, till your land, make 
your eloathing, build your houfes, work 
yeur machines, in fhort, do every fervice 
that can be required fiom them.” 
Upon fuch a flatement, can it be doubt< 
ed who are the moft profitable bidders to 
the fiate, and where the encouragement to 
populition fhould be given? Were a large 
proportion ef the fuperior claffes to live 
in celibacy, it would bea ral relief to the 
community; for whatever there is of fu- 
perfiuity in the candidates for maintenance 
and employment, exifts among them; and 
any deficiency in the fiations of uteful- 
ness commonly filled by them, might be 
eahiy fupplied from the beft educated of 
the inferior ranks. But of thele latter is 
compofed the great living flock of the 
nation, the ftlaple material of its pro{perity 
and fafety, which cannot decline without 
the declenfion of the whole politicai fa- 
bric. Seiting afide, therefore, all conf- 
derations of the duty of imparting happi- 
nefs a3 widely as pofflible, the moit inter. 
efted policy would reject the paltry coun- 
fel of throwing obitacies in the way of 
the increaie “6f the poor, through appre- 
henfion of accumulating burdens on therich, 
I cannot forbear adding a reflection or 
two upon the arrogant and unfeeling ad- 
drefs made to the poor man.—‘** What bu- 
finefs have you here? there is no room for 
you; the table of nature is full”? Surely 
one who wiles this language muft forget 
that it is common to all mankind to come 
naked into the world; and that the heir 
of princely opulence brings none of his 
proviiion with him, but receivesit allat the 
hand of that fociety of which rich and-poor 
are alike members. The table of nature 
is not fuil, though luxury and greedinefs 
may have f:1zed on all her dainties, and 
exciuded other suetts, on the maxim ‘* The 
fewer the better cheer.” Natere can ftill 
Keep a plentiful board of plain but whole- 
‘fome fare; and fhame on the man who 
would reftrié&t her beunties! Worle than 
fame on him who can argue, that the rich 
man's horfes have a better right to be fed 
than the poor man’s children! ; 
Nothing can be more contrary to the 
contradi&ion. 
fpirit of our Jaws than this abandonment — 
of fuch of our fellow-fubjeéts as come into 
the world without property. The law in- 
ftantly takes them under its protection, 
and in return claims from them all the * 
duties of allegiance, upon the mere ground 
of being natives of the foil. Their 
country appropriates them to her fervice, 
and fummors them from the remoteft 
parts of the earth, when in need of their 
arms for her defence. Nay, fhe has made 
it a crime again herfelf for them to ufe 
the natural liberty of withdrawing from 
the world when life is a burden; for fui. 
cide is confidered as felony, becaufe ¢* it 
deprives the king of a fubjeét.”” If then 
the poor man has not a right to die, furely 
he has a right to live! ; fi 
“But I feel myfelf in danger, Mr. E 
tor, of being ied away by my feelings 
puriue this topic further than I intend 
i thereiore conclude, Yours, &c. ; 
Bone PHILANDER, 
Ta the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
SIR, ; 
NDULGE me with the liberty of wifh- 
J ing and requefting that your impor- 
tant and widely circulating work may be 
the receptacle of communications on a 
fubjeG interefting, in a very high degree, 
to every reader of the Greek and Roman 
claffics. It is well knéwn, to all: who 
have ever peeped out of the fheil of a 
grammar {chool, that the current Enghth 
mode of reciting the two nobleft languages 
that ever adorned the earthis in the very ex- 
treme of cacophony, barbarifm, and felf- 
By applying the fingular 
anomaly of our own language with re. 
foett to the powers of the vowels, an ano- 
maly as inconfiftent with itfelf as 1 is re- 
pugnant to the praétice of all other civi. 
lized nations; and by our general igno- 
rance of the very meaning of the tern 
quantity, for which we abfurdly fubfitute 
a partial and contradictory accent ; we 
murder the fine preduétions of human 
genius, and audacioufly trample on all the 
melodious accuracy of poets, the mufic of 
whofe meafures ought to be facredly pre- 
ferved, from juflice to them, if we had no 
wilh of pleafure for ourfeilves. So ftrong 
a fenfe had the late excellent and fpirited 
Dr. Warner cf thefe abominable abfur- 
dities, by which ke fays “‘ we deftroy both 
the found and the fenfe, and feem to fin 
merely froma love of rhe very uglinefs of 
fining,” that, on the conviction of it, he 
exclaims, ‘* i was afhamed that my nature 
could net rather be compared, ¢ half-nea- 
foning-elephant, to thine!” fince it requires 
but half the imalleft portion of reafon that 
any 
