The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-12 00:00:00

man!

His finest feelings, his highest intellectual powers, and his
hest energies, must lie waste, or be so misdirected as to pro-
duce evil continually. K.

Such is a just and accurate outline of man as he has been-
made—and as l►e is made--ender all the past and present

systems

Were I now to descend to particulars: to give a faithful
representation in,detail of the errors, inconsistencies, and of
the miseries which arise from the existing arrangements of
society throughout all its parts; the public mind would he
too suddenly enlightened for its own happiness: ignorant
and untrained Zs it yet is, it would not retain the requisite
patience to allow the change to be gradually effected ; to
proceed only as speedily as practical Measures will admit; it
would too eagerly press forward to seize the good which in
due. time shall be certainly placed within its grasp, and by
such over-haste it would injure and destroy many in its course.
Inseftecting'this change—and where is the existing mind that
can now comprehend its magnitude ?—it is my most ardent
wish, my anxious desire, that the least possible irritation
should be created; that it should be accomplished without
any real injury to ix human beim: Those who possess com-
prehension of Mind, and sonic practical knowledge of the ex-
isting state of society, will understand the purport of this lag-7
guage, and will of course act. accordingly.
Yes, my friends, full of folly, inconsistency, and‘wretahed-
nest, so all the existing systems are, they must not be touched
by ill-informed and rude hands. A single premature or ill••
advised step, were it now to be taken, might retard our best •
founded hoioes, arid deprive some generations yet to come of
that happiness which otherwise we and our children shall
surely enjoy in no inconsiderable degree.

Allay, therefore, your present irritations—do not urge for-
ward any ill-digested, or rather undigeited plans of prema-
ture reform; yet attend with all your powers of earnestness
to t 1 proceedings which are about to commence, and in the
shortest possible time for your own good and for the benefit '
of posterity,-you-shall be re:ieved from the existing miseries;
you shall be poi in posf:ssiol! of ull the 'comfortand enjoy-
ment that canhe.advantageous to human beings.

To accomplish; however, thisgrcat end, without injury to:
any one, it
ris,absolutely nceeva-ry that all the existing- in-
stitutions should be supported for a time as they are, to en•
able theni fo protect, and beneficially direct and controul,
the mighty ch Inge which is coming rapidly upon us and upon
all nations; from which it is utterly impossible for us to
escape; and from which, whin it shall be properly U oder-
st ood, Rot one of us shall desire to escape : on the contrary,
one and all of us will hail it as the harbinger of whatever is
good for individual man, and advantageous for him in.hiss'o-
Cial capacity.

Whun right principles 'are acted upon, it is, and ever will
he, unnecessary to deceive the puhlic; the truth may he told
for or against any national impressions with advantage to
every just danse; and this course shall be now adopted.

The present governing Powers of 'Europe and America,
with a few unimportant exceptions, are not in reality opposed,
to the practical improvement of society ; They wish its ad-
vance, and, when they shall fully understand how it can be
effected, they will not withhold their active assistance.
The Ministers of this country—and I.know them well—do
not possess sufficient energies ac,d practical knowledge to lead
the public mind as it now ought to be led ; and their political
opponents possess still less useful, practical, knowledge.— •
Statesmen in all countries have yet to learn the principles of
the science that will enable them, to govern States so as to
snake themselves and the people happy.
.But our Ministers possess kind and amiable dispositions,
and a real desire to atuelica-ate the condition of all junk.:l,

'Ere for fire yeirs Pnt their patience, their teMPets, and-their
itclinati.:ms, to it test which cannot deceive me; and although
It licort,:etle true that they do not possess the requisites to
lead the nietienal mind into new and nntried, but absolutely
necessary. itaprO-vement—for. this the'', leave to others; yet
it is my belief that many .4 them are sincerely willing and de-
sirous to go with and accompany the public in that course
wheneier the public shall he duly p-epared and provided for
the jonrney. They are tow as conscious as any other class in
society. that the way in Which they find themselves fast ad-
Alleitte is the big', road to rontirs,on and misvm
And here, as am 146LiOos that not one of my motives'
horthi be misunderstmill, it is necessary to say, that when in
a preceding pUblication I stated that it would be mote just for
The Secretary of :t.ite for the Herne DeOitttmen't to be
&tilde-ironed and iii Newgate, rather than the poor bey of
16 years of age, who trout his birth had been neglected by
society; although this statement was then as it i. oo'w, the,
genuine expression of my feelings and judgment, yet it was
not in any degree intended to wound the feelings of my Lord
:Sidinnoth. Some part of the ptiblic, it .seems, has supposed
othetwise, although his Lordship coal I not mistake mytnean-
ing. I have received numberless marks of kindness and at-
tention from him ; I have at this moment a lively impression
of the urbanity of his manners and it is but justice to him
to say, that he readily gave his assistance to Mrs. Fry, to ena-
ble her to proteed with her good work among the female pri-
soners in Newgate. Still, however, the Secretary of State for
the Home Department is ptirsoing, and for some time to come
I fear must pursto a eonrse which creates in its co,sequen-
ces nitre cruelty and injustice than may be obvious to him
and many others; and, therefore, notwithitanding I feel a
'real regard for the individual, must oppose, with all my
Powers. the errors of the system under which he acts; and!
hope-the time is not,far distant, when be also will lend his
utmost Ministerial aid to introduce a better..
Of-the existing systems I trust it is unnecessary for me
now to say more, than that I consider them wretched indeed
but, had as they are, they must be protected Until a better
shall be actually in practice.

We will now view man under the new ciictunstances in
which he is abort to be plaeq.

In the new, as under the old, lie will be horn in ignorance.
He will be trained front earliest infancy to acqiire only

Vinci and 'benevolent dispositicins.

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He will be taught facts only. These will enable him very
early in life to understand clearly how his own character and
the character of his. fellow creatures have been formed and
are forming. He will thus be secured from hiing enveloped
by any ofthe ei,il and demoralizing atmospheres with which.
every man yet born has been surrounded.
circumstances will exis, to compel him to acquire feel-
ing; of disunion and separation from any other human bem.
On the cowl:try, his heart will be open to receive, and his
Land ready to assist, each of his fellow creatures, whatever
may he his sect, his class, his party, his country, or his colour.
Anger, hatred, and revenge will have no place on which to
rest ; the pabulum oh which all the evil passions fed will no
longer exist ; unity and mutual co-operation to any extent
Still b,ecome'easy of execution, and the common practice
of all.
Men will soon read their past history, only to retain-a re-
Nemlirance of the errors and inconsistencies from whence
they rmerged, and to compare. the happiness around them
witk the misery of hauler tint**.
Look now at the drawing exhibited, and compare the scenes
it but faintly represents with the situation of .the ex-
Wing poor and .working sclasses in the manufacturing towns ;
and vet the extrence and trooh!r of the latter are tenfold those
of the one represented. We will very hastily,and slightly
sketch the contract.