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IWIPIAII thaw parts at is which wets. t.vot wilJ slut 41.
r.st., sad iisprote end harenussitse she moat savage and
es. ssii • hseneti parts of the earth. Uhl rutted Mal-

the. h. 41 hill nwn view ft( the auhjett, written
so •hiv au papal•ii..a.... as/ the fear which ha

kid lb; s fisetfon ibis wind• oith• most intollispot by

Ills superior power of reasoning (suppesitsu dstJ to
be low"), ihsl be (Mr, 0) dill slot espeet that ally

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thing bot farm rebid now give ',lief to the winds at
statesmen. when a child is barn am..ni the lailsnerimg
elutes. When the hinnies and qualities of infants
bliell he bogy/ oodefeinntl, then for many ages. at

toast, scold mankind orioles et sees a elreetwetanee4
and at 130 Vetere period of the world emelt! we 'ape.
alnico say tkiug like dm sauna evils end misery from
ow
earns of population, as from gross ignenuer
inflict •Iron ourreltes final the fear of
It.• 66 Sheeld the world," isid blr.o4en, ever at-
We OW fell eaten' of population that will Aloe to
tech individual the utmost benefit that the earth sod

11..eiet y ran •fford, which must be • very distant I
period, it will he then, hi the improved Stale of
tociosy which espesience will necessarily create, meth
tont. rally to limit population, without crime ee
misery, than at present ; bet, in troth, this is so M.
mole a contingeory, that it is the very essence of
folly to waste one thought upon tbe subject.—osi
These, then, ace the causes which induced tee to
tern my attention to toe subject before yoe, and
to form tint combination, oil the part of which
cow 'apish, to detail. la the progress of =yelped-
men's, I discovered tint, to give permanent benefi-
cisl productive employment to the working chases,
it was necessary to combine land, labour, good ha.
bite, and intelleciesl power, is such a manner that
esti should mutually aid the other, and that the re-
sult of this en-operation, when carried into its full
effect, should tint bjore any other past of society.—
Permit see, boomer, to request you will steadily bear
Iw mindohat tbr whole of the arrangements be-
fore you are devised for the most poor and destitute
somber, of society, whom tole dependence for subsist-
eoetit (for want of employment) on their own parishes.
Ono great consideration with ea was, hew said
their labour he most advantagepusly employed for
themselves and satiety ? This I soon discovered re-
quired that bade and manufactetes should be coot.
bind with agriculture; bet that this part of the are
raegeterni could not be advantageously adopted with.
cut adding ethers that should secure to each
indiri-
deal good habits from infancy, and a *slut educe.
Teen followed the important contideration,
bow the thousand individuals could he arranged to
obtain the (fewest permanent economy in all their
domestic arrangements? and yet by that economy in-
cream thecomforts of the poor, and of the workiog
elates, as nisch as experience and the present habits
of the world mill permit. The combination before you
is formed with a view to effect ell the objects which
bare been mentioued. I have tried many of these
parts in combination seder circumstances greatly
more disadvantageous than those before you. and
In pretties they rested the most sanguine @spec-
Wilms I had formrd of them previous to trial.
Without you had missed throne the same experience
which I bate had in arranging a gist multiplicity of
different and distinct operations, to suite for one
purpose; end the espetiese also which I have had
Its re-modelling or changiog the habits of a whole
people, opposed to me by all the prejudices of strong
lettings, ari.ing from different habits, notions, and
supposed Interests. you can form bet a eery inside..
quote conception of the simmers which may be ac-
quired by loch arrangements. In the first place, the
form of the "idler combine, more economy, comfort,
and advantages, then perhaps any other disposition
of houses end public offices. It admits of 'co-
ttony of building, of feel, of cooking, of cleans-
leg, of ponce. of inspection, of labour of all kinds
In a very remarkable manner. It combines the
cheap but invaluable comfort of air, light, and
space, and the patties ere in the midst of all
their neeupstiono—Sech are some of the bone-
fits arising host the form of the village. The two
farming establishments, each of them bring placed its
the centre of ball of the lied, and the workshop, sod
manufactories being situated at a short distance from
the village, have been arranged on the same principles
of economy of labour and convenience. The same
principles proven in the disposition of the schools.
kitchens, paling-rooms, chetah, lettere-rooms, gar•
dens, and in abort of all the to:spender's to the plan."
Mr. 0. went hod some farther eXplanasions Imped-
ing the dispooitions of the establishment. Upon that
part of them which related to the training of infants.
Mt. Owen witched to be better understood. "
bee.," said he," tried dm effects of this part of the
arrangement for thrws years eaci• half, and the result
Is quite satisfactory, and beyond the most sanguine
hopes I bad ehtertilioed. This infant wheel abuts
the seeps by which chilsirtio may be patented from
acquiring bed habite, and no human being, I believe,
Can yet estimate the benefits which may be given to
mankind. by this simple, economical, and certain
means, for the prevention of bad habits in the
citing generation of the poor; they may be
made almost • new race of human beings.—
I will not now detain you longer biy doelliiig
on this part of the subject; but I can state
from experience, that society now possesses the power
to do more good to itself, by training all the children
of the poor is good habits from infancy, than it
coo effect by a tenfold labour and expenditure in any
other direction whatever. I speak now under the
correction of those who have given themselves mach
trouble to investigate the *object ' • I hope some of
them who are competent to do justice to the subject
will state whet has been already done io this way for
some of the poor children of Westminster. The l'oblic
is much indebted to several individuals, of whose Wu-
obis services in this respect they are yet toonforeted.
I know all the ordinary emboss and prejudices in the
minds of many against this port of the arrangement;
but under the system before yes, those objections
bare no weight—they are merely the seppositioss of
'beery or of limited experience. The females, be.
sides being in the gardens at the proper seams of the
• year, will have the general Operiateudauce end
occupation of all the domestic concerns; sod when
properly trained for the purpose, of many parts of
the education of the children also, which, ender
this system, will be considered the most in.
portant defy of society. The more minute de-
tills of the employment of etch community, will
depend on the locality of soil and osnufactarev,

Tim;

• hirls rievical soot will readily enniiirphend.
lure givel. Liat a alight and hasty sktr•cit of this at•
rongement—time will nut admit of more, bet will
with plea-ure Kira any further implanst• in my
rower, that may be required by any one preserth--
if it *ill not fairly meld every objection that olio I
roost intelligent minds can liege against it, in my esti-
mation it ovoid bit of aw males. My sole interest In
the object is to relies• the working classes, sad so
Moly gonsttatty, frem_tho evils of pauperise and
ignorance. 1 hurt no ambition in gratify; I givers
sill accept reward of any kind from my party for
any wake I nsay do to the Politic. lii the act of
performing those thing* 1 secure all I nisi, Or seer
for owe ingeneut contemplated."

The Ahrobly 'cinched their winked satisfied*u
as he retiree.

His Royal fishiest tie Duke of Sussex thee rent
and said. that after the leminous and candid opening
of his Matrices relative, end the able aid minute's.
planation of Mr. Owe*, it would be sepe.fteues in
him to trouble them at any length. The manes of
Mr. Owen had, no doubt, high merit, and its ob
jai was certainly one iehich night to be taken up by
every person who had the love of his country et heat.
At the same time, he begged not to be understood at
at all pledging himself either to the practicability of
the scheme, or its results. There was one point. he
thought, which most strike
how far this scheme could be made to asimilate with
the tasting hawed the country. Ile ihoeght it pro-
liable, that in some instances they might materially
Interfere with each other. Wheo ha made these au-
streations, he was very desires. of not bring ender.
'toed as wishing to throw cold wain on the subject ;
on the contrary, he thought it one of the highest im-
portance, well deserving of the psbllc attention, and
whatever the result might be, its anther was most
unquestionably entitled to the praise and petite& of
his county.—(Lord eppleere.)-11i. Royal highness
then proposed the following Resolution :-
I!..tt the plan mow esplaised to this Meeting Wolves not.
demi. on at all Omni. !vermin to soelmv. TAM at thin
colas period sue 'skit,' Is freight with aildirrawal elates so the
imitation
regard tadtaditation ut every put of the coostaeity panics-
lady as it admits 01 DO eithlFlTe principle, hat is looted eat
de.igaed sabrounlally to bevel' all p mks. Tbat ereadardeg
the low sod extensive expriamee from whew* this plats bag
originated, and the time sad great expiate whit% the
of it has devoted to form she arrooseatems arrow. al. seamier
deotearag she animators and looratigatlna of all now was feel
a. layered in annex a .eresistaiire to the rowel see.nnes of
the peer, sad to the nosteroos catalog evil. of parspenws
Joint SWITII, Esq. (the Member of Pattlautent fur
Midbent) seconded this Resolution, and observed,
that he agreed entirely with all the eulogies which
bad been paid to Mr. Owen. The Ilan. Gentlemen
then decribed a 'id' which he had made to the este-
bliehment of Mr. Owen, et New Lanark. the had
"stied there while Mr. Owen was is. Landon, at the
very time in which he was engaged in implaioing his
system to a Public Meeting which he had called for
the lOW
~one. Ile 'pent three days in inspecting it,
being astmitte.t wilhoot previous entice or ceremony
by Mei. Owen, aid assitteti by three of the clerks ;
so that there was tin possibility of his hang bias--'
by any partial feeling which Mr. Owen might be sup.
posed to observe is elucidating the pnortpaes of list
establishment. Liam the tetrinionr, therefore. of hos
own direct •tbservations, he declared himself to be
cnnvioced that Mr. Owen', plan of Mention
was admirably nlailited to inform the What
stied, to give it en undeviating tendency to aired
morals and irlditatrlner habits. .end •• it was be-
sides conducted Imo,. a principle of pose heneso•
lean, knotted of rigour awl oortithroent, he mai
pronounce it to .be the belt Le aid ever seen.—
It was, indeed, en object of the Ai. best *Were., to
observe this ellectionate 'method of train, og, ptr•i.u-
larly among the children under five year, ..t
Ile might he swayed by particular feelings, but h-
was not ashamed to owe. that he felt the trios' heart-
felt satisfactine at witnessing this kind mode of treat-
ment; and Mr. Owen bad pert -al! coaviand him
that mote was to be done by it than by any system el
coercion whatever. Ile seconded the Resolution.
I The Resolution was theu put, sod carried enanl-
measly.
The Duke of KENT then observed that the west
step would be to solicit the aid of those Gentles's,.
who might ho willing to give attention to this ite-
, peanut object; and he woad Sot scruple to say,
that the country *tight to feel grateful to say oat
that would came forward. From his owe prefers-
dowel pursuits he felt very 'palpitate to the subject,
bet if his individual time and talents could he of say
service, they should be devoted to 11.--(Cheers.)
Upon the motion of the Doke of Seats, a Com-
mittee front the Gentlemen pteseet was then put in
nomination; and upon the name of Mr. Pasinoe, the
Barrister, being proposed, that Gentlemen rose, and
in an eloquent speech of considerable length, ea.
pressed his conviction that Mr. Owee's plan was
calcalated to produce great and lasting banal to so.
day, if not a total obliteration of the evils which
now oppressed the country ; bat he begged to dt•
clues being nominated on the Committee, because he
felt he should not be able to pay that attention which
a saint of such wagnitede demanded.
The Committee was then appointed, with pant
to add to their flambe'''. Among them were, their
Royal Highnesses the Dykes of Kent aid Sasses, Sir
W. de Crapiguy, lion. J. W. Ward, Mr. Ricardo,
Sir Samuel Clerk Jonas*, Rev. W. Gunny, Gee.
Brown, Mr. Rear Ilan, Col. Ogg, T. U. Dodd, I
Erg. 'l'. 'l'. Clark, Esq. Sic.
Mr. RICAUDO begged to trouble the Meeting with
a few observations. As his name was placed upon
the Committee, be would gate shortly those circsm•
stances in which he agreed, and in which he differed
from the last speaker. Ile completely concurred
with him in the commendations bestowed upon the
Monitions Personsge who presided at the Meeting.
it its an wimple of seal for the public good, and
of benevolent intention, worthy of the highest praise.
la a limited degree he thought the easing likely to
succeed, end to produce, where it did succeed, con-
siderable happiness, comfort, and morality, by give
lag employment and instruction to the lower classes.
No person could admire snore tilt's he did, or appro.
nate more highly the benevolence that led his friend
(Mr. Owen) to prosecute his plan with so mach seal,
and at the raptors of so mach time and trouble. Ile
'meld not, however, go along with him in the hope
of ameliorating the coalition of the lower clause, to
tech a degree as be seemed to expect ; nor shoed IN
wish it to. go forth to the Public that he thought the
plea wield rodeo all the goad anticipated flea it

LONDON:
MONDAY. JUXE 28, 1819.
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We have, in Ihi+ dey's Paper,alveu a full account,
as we promised, of Mr. Ow's'a plan for tint eat•
ployment aid improvement of the poor. That he
may be ihnoght enthusiastic Is not anlikely. It is a

brneenlent tothosiasm. The design hss been eon-

;wired in much trouble, se well so in much gonelnets
of hurt; anti has bets carried so hr an at a very

con•;lor•ble outwit* to hioiself. Half a century
*go, it would ant hue been believed that sea would

ever naligre the air, at the role of fifty miles an
hoer ; or that whole Mona coeld be iliontinated by
an ignited g fluid: it h not tis,reforo surprising
that many well-meaning people ass) doubt a Mr.Owsw
realising his beneficent project, and multiplying the
productions of art and astute. All great projections
should be melted with caution, and even with

.Itoebt. They should be seretinised thoroughly be-
fore they are adopted for experiment. We are not
without oar portion of scepticism on all tech ewe-
.inns; bet we declare conscientiously, that we dis-
rein no forbidding circumstance, suspect so lewd
obs:scle, to discourage the immediate preparation
for the impertent essay. To doubt, indeed, of the
possibility of obtaining the wished-for good, by this
or some other such means, would be to impugn Pro-
widens* itself, in peopling the earth with more lobe-
bitaots than it is capable of sustaining. Such an in;
ference would be cont►ary to the beautiful and wise
order of astute. She is not capricious! It is man,
•tie man, who, tea certain point, frustrates her
designs, and brings, by his perversity and selfish-
ness, wee and distress ern his fellows.

Mach is said in yarnl of the Joornals respecting

the Myelitis at Stockport, Leeds, and other places;
that tech political associations of the less ioforrned
classes of society have always been ender the goidancs
of secret directors, whose views have been diametri-
cally opposite to those they are pleased to call their
1 unconscious tools and followers. This we de •ot

believe, nor hove we so poor an opinion of the great
number of our fellow-creatures in England as to sop- I
pogo they would become the designing tools of soy
artful person u hewer. Are their privations and
sufferings then thought insufficient to escite them to
the measures they are pursuing? Can these hard-
hearted censurers Irish to see them shut op in hugger,
and silently left to expire, ruttier then give gaminess
le the higher powers? Theo again they are reflected
on because their complaints are said to be in
the urns tone sod in unison with those of
the Jacobins in the commencement of the rrenelt
Revelation. Why, to be sure, it is bot natural it
should be so. With the didersoce of the two Imo.
pages, so doubt, the legitimists of the cemplainiug
pieties will almost react', correspond. Is one per-
: fierier, Indeed, there is a difference; bet that ought
to @ache pity and regard for the complainants. Our
poor erases@ ark to be transported to some other
and more propitious pert of the globe, where, by
their labour they may mere themselves of obtaining
eelloient sosteneoce to support life. Great portioes
of the inhabitants of a nation are elver stirred up in
Ithis manner by art. It is by natural seining that
they ere arnosed into movement ; otherwise, they
would be still as Ittel water.

4lk Ikat Cie wit.e#W..d.-11; rboscaOt I d 44c1t1 )h
Ittllein that the Prig, respe‘ting the fintocial cc-
‘
~ bid lOgis brought to a duo
lhitled s , past vd by a majority of Ise to 3.
The eieine die. The Chamber of
Dopac*rmin. at ear discossinni oil the Budget
of Eapend'tore, akd adootod the whole as a law by
almost a similar majority, vis. bj 19) voices t, IC
We are led to be,imia not only that the matontent
was clear but bidli:y aneaceptionable, to obtain al.
most Om unanimous votes of ghetto° whole Assemblies.
These accounts must be very differently relished,
being so very differently received from them which -
our Cnancat.t.on of the EXCUEQVIS brings forward
in our Mess of Parliament. M. M ANVIL traversed
the whole range of the French Government's system,
political, lolanda', sad commercial, concluding with
recommending the catering into immediate commOr-
slat relations with the Smith American Independ-
ents. No doubt Ito has been prompted to sag-
gest this meow, from seeing the mad proceed..
hags of the BritishG @@@@@ meat, in turning the friend.
ly coarse of commonieation between its subjects mod
thoscrontenders for (tertian, into mere than Omelet*
indifference. If our rivals should succeed in this
view pion the interest of the British nation, we do
hope and treat that Ministers will bo brought to the
bar of public opinion, and for once at lest treated as
they will have d ed. N. X 1 Anon. in the coarse
of his speech me the finances, expressed his sorption
that the tat on gosling-house: was not breeght to me.
count; if (said he) it is one of which the French Go-
vernment is ashamed, it were bettor to abolish the
whole altogether.

American Papers have arrived from almost all
parts of the Union. Their Idlest date is Jane R.

The United Stales Batik have received orders t•
gather in their mayors, and immediately proceed to
settle with the Rants of the States. °sprain ntonLe
has poblished a long and onimpertast esplasation of

his dispute wills Lord COCIBRAIM
Jousrrom's sqvadren, consisting of three Me. -
beats, hasdepsrted from Shipping•port for the Ifelo
low Stone; the Western Engineer, of 700 tons, In
just Isencited, mod will icrooediately proceed to St.
Levis; it is said that he. machinery was ceestroeted
in England, by the Eugieeers who fitted thu stem.
frigate. _ _

The deprestilne of commerce and Bonk paper ie.
t ln all the Statel ; end many projects are es
font for promoting Ovirsitore in prottoretlCO to HMO.
The engrav►r, of isolatitible Bank not►+ bid just 11111.
barked's, the Papers came away, to o6►r their sere
vices to the Batik of England —Tb► electioneering
It ruggie condo ties stil I; th► Federalists have recourse to
every scores of Internee which Is alienable, not for.
getting the pulpits. We shall give further eatract
te.motreet.

We regret that we have not -pace to give an cc-
coon, of tile last adjourned Popular Meeting at Homo
let Moor, on the subject of the' grientsces or tilt,
poor workmen is Leeds earl its neighbourhood, as
well as on Reform, which Meeting ended, after s
long and interesting discussion, by a dissolation, not
an adjournment. There are other Monists is Tani.
oes places, ou the tame subject at this time.
One of the solutions corset of tontine is that, for
every sew tax or additional impnic upon the tame an.
tiele, the Government is obliged to employ new
taa•geth , and create sew 01SCOO. Now, be-
caste lea is taxed higher than before, it becomes an
article of tempratios to smugglers. sod therefore it
is necessary to have stations erected on every part of
the coast, with persons to give notice of the approach
of smeggiras sod their movem•ute. What ■embers
of wicked bribes, forgeries, and perjuries, might be
done away by the repeal of two or three lases, and
their amount might be well spored, by abolishing a
few sinecure places and santerited pessioos !
What an imputations it it to Iks Ministers of Greet
Britain, that IN almost every county of Euglood ws
hear of nothing bet emigration. A better order of
Government would undoubtedly hese prevented this
disgrace spew our political tramway.
The tide of emigration from Yorkshire lute sud-
denly veered from North to South Americo; and
many individesla and Wellies (some of them possess.
ed of considerable property) are making preparations
t • take their departure to that Nem Land of Promise.
Several ships have arrived at Liverpool during the
present week, freighted with soldiers sod emigrants
from Ireland and other parts of the Gaited King-
dom, for South America. Three vessels are alto Br-
this out from Liverpool, for the ravels portion of
conveying emigrants, its from this part of the tier
does.

There have been several dreedfel hail•storms in the
snuth.western departments of France, which bees
done mach mischief in the corn-Gelda.
In the night of the Stb sad :•!`, a stem caused seri
en overflow of the rims that traverse tke srrondisse-
meet of Nynns (Draw.), as to throw down bridges
sod dikes, end inendate the fields. At St. Eupheesis.
100 sheep were drowned in their fold. On the 4tk
the lightning fell in a piece called Vseglais, in the
Commune of Chapelle Bate. (Viease), sad killed
three oxen.
General Barras has published a letter in reply to
certain allegations relative to his tendert as • Direc-
tor, doting his disgrace ender Bonaparte, and is his
private life sines the restoration. These allegations
are contained in a work recently published.
Sr. PAuCtiAli Niw Councw—We understand that
the first stogie of a handsome soy Church. intended
to b. built in the parish of St. Patient, on the esee,o
side of Eustrin.lquere' adjoioing the wroth side piths
New-road, is to be laid by his Royal Higbee,' the
Dyke of Yours, on Thersalay Rest, et one o'clock.
Prince Laorocooltrodod Divine Service yesteritY
at the agape' Boys', St. James's Pellet.

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