The National Register.
London, England, 1816-12-02 00:00:00

**The age for enacting Utopias is
.gone by ; but God forbid that we
aloud' cease to lank on in hop::-,l in thith to the inolitelana posi-
ble ameba:viol ofenictir !--,..;.0.i iorliall that we should awe to pray
fo.. it, and to labour for it as we may ! We have lied to soe the aho-
li:Mt of the Ski.: Trade,--we Isar: lived to we the discovery of VIM
eeueioa. everai by irl.ic'a mi., of the 4.reat.--st ovirel, and one of the
greatmt y 4.4.11.011, iu the ,verld will ultimately be rooted out The
calili:ioi of one great and im!'ectmit class of the community (the mi-
lit ay an.l riae..l cla s) li IS been moat arr.:Holly improved : a wiser
• st.li hu it tier disc,p3 to is gradually obtaining iu both serrices s the
prM7i,d.! liii be:a intraduart of increase of pay in proportion to
*ltia'tsl of 6'4)i"..1. and 4.V: 5:534 iihj lists s2:ved his mantry.one and
t . enty yeLr; t; ?mitizd to Ms dicharge, and to a pension ula shilling
II .my 14r life. lle who cite 7.. the service young may thug retire from
it at ...I age when he has years otenjoyment leak oa so in the course
oln stir:. A proportisante perislot.t u allott.sl to those who are dis-
Liarg.ll after tuartetni years, and sickness or intinnity entitles a man
to a sit:vitt afer se:et. honorary thank:tants have been extruded
to privates 145 well Ai °dicers. Regiment:a schools have Iseen estab-
lished and net iii:ent institutions founded, for the orphans of the de-
fenders of tli:ir country. When these benefits shall be genteelly un-
derstond,. there will be stn difficulty, in recruiting the army and navy,
de ,ertions will bee•nne lets frequent, and the neemity of pressing
will in time be snpersede.l. Nor will the condition of the peasantry,
and the manufteturing p nktILLC, be -less :o.nitially improved when
those niaa Aires. w !ICU Ilk? pnietical philanthropists have MOW-
wended, shall be generally introduced. Let there be a system of
parechial schools, connected with the church establishment, where
every child :nay reeeive the. rudiments of nmessary knowledge, and bs
well instructed in his moral and religious duties. Let the temptationst o
guilt be le renal by aproliibition of these brutal sports which harden
toe heart, and Iry an alteration of the Game LRWX, which err absurd,
pernieMaaand siLoiniviahle. Let us multiply Emits inttead of throw-
ing many into on:. Let the labourer, wherever it is possibe, have N.
grass plot and his garden. hit the inducements of industry be fur-
ther stnaigthoied by the universal institution of Sating Banks, ev-
ines thus to every one the fair prospect and easy means of providing
is yo::.:11 foe the increased caprices of manhood. Were these sum-
filZes adopted, the pool--rates would diminish, and in no long time
disappe:urs and the asylums, which would still be . required for
friaidle is ago, and helpless infirmity, might be so regalaWas to se-
splice a religious use and a religious character. They who exert them-
selves in promoting these object's, end such as these, are the genuine
pa:riots, the true reformers, the real friends of the people.
-,But if these things were done, says the metaphysical politician, the
country would be overstocked ; Mr. Malthus's discovery must be re•
inembered, and the • new science of population!'-.'flee new faience
of pspolatien !--.First-rate powers display themselves in the mine
manner in all ages. Alter but the place and time of their birth. and
the Aristotle of Greece would have been the Bacon of England;
sE ,schylus might have been our Shakspeare, Deniosthenes have led a
Home of Commons, and the Hannibal <done time have been the Wel-
liogton of another. Great men set their stamp uponthe age, it is other-
wise withehe snail craft, the age sets its stamp upon than. Men of
genius oak like dafseulytar far posterity upon ouluringmateliah ;
the uustal and Mini ratainags compose works of perish ible staff*
the • !titbits of the day. The saine temper of mind. which in
aid ' . ilasifupsesebolastic questions, and at a later age in
gap the Scriptures, has in these days taken the dim-
Ogg of reataphysical er statistic philosophy. Bear witness Bullion
Ile Collll.Laws ! Beenuitness, the New Science of Population ! and
lei wislie host of produitises to which these happy topics have given
MIA. boa the humble magazine essay, up to the held octavo. and
min anthitiotss quarto. The type of disease has varied at different
tjwilm, but the dooms remains the ,sine-a colliquative diartinea of
en istsks•-eakispig beta its smog appetite and weak digestion.
iir. epee tbeasios of population would be as absurd as
Vs u sailn thaw? of pasumatics were to set respiration
atria:der his parat,ts to regolate their breathings by the
Lis A population u. likc the Amrecta cup of Kchama,
thofftrillnitrftrals or the petrol of ..blemings. according to the go.
Teponani side eidds it. A people properly instructed in their duty.
tralnatl up in habits of indautry and hope, which induce pro.
inn never be too MOWN= while any portion of their own
etriatry. r.anains nneoldvatedow any part of the habitable earth un-
estrtrisak To mason against thus amelioratimi of society from such
in . •o i v worse than folly. Under the most favourable
which the neat ardent enthusiast can contemplate,
ibillembetas west ems away before the earth could he replenished ;-
111111 int lisiosthis first cominandmmt which man received from his
ftrtriagr stands nanyialsi,-and if ever that time should come the
distilserstaf shoo .be Isstrod : moustime it is the truest policy and
dos conditian of the poor. The better tbe
alw IshurelrOpistaiil the better they will become;
lbw witi. tie mere they we eteltiply I the masse they
yid." gnaw will beetle melds mid steeeetbo end security
eltbeetatal and doss auslaas arse as certain arum kw of nature
and &God.