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j\Dd> for oae instance, let us take our stand and consider the scenes which are submitted to our daily perusal. Look abroad over this city with Uie eye of au immortal creature. Forget the epicureauiHtn of nature, and let not the jolly riol, in which the people may occasionally beguile their condition, beguile your JLTdgineat ; let us likewise be denied to the frivolity of huntan nature, which jokes and jesu with the oddities and extravagan- ctes of misery, and serves them up to the g:eniua of laughter and folly : Ictus aho forget tlie Ieelingi4 of fellow-citizens, in this in<|uiry, which is to elevale our fellow*citixens by knowing their exact condition ; and let not the associations connected with that ma^c word, " the People of Enffland," bindcT our icrutiny : let us put on a mood of im- mortality ; and come, let us weigh this laborious city in llie scales of truth, and measure it with the mea&urcs of everlasting judgments. If you are up by times, you will hear in the grey of the momtog the footsteps of the labourer beneath yourcasemcnt, pacing; heavily on to the scene of his daily labour: as the dawu makes prugress upon 4096 TitK cuiist AS 70 BODitv tA0ouit. [i>ir. the rear of mpht, the din slowly iDcreaaes aod ascendftt anlil the iirst witch of the clay: one con slant Tolumi? oi ^oiincl inspheres Uie city like tk Doiae of the neighbouring ocean, through whic the rattling sound cf chariot wheeU, and thft rollinf- dio of heavy vans, and the shrill discord of oaths and angry men. break incessantly like the waves which dash upon the shore. It cca^etb not the hve-ktngday: it a^cendetli into your ea#i H cL-^Kelif!»s ttdf of Buuiid, in which no instaat silence is tn be discerned, A noiee of men, and of cattle, and of the instruments of their totb, which are all day long employed in bearing bar dens from place to place, and in reluming to more until the shades of ercning come to them from their harness, and allow them to their weary limbs. And tlie^e burdens w they bear are not the eujuymculs of inetir the subject matter of their toil, as ye will discof if ye follow them to their landing placet. There other laborious bands servcth them, and diap€M«th ^ them in their various placet- And they are taken into lnb<Triuit« sbo[n«, and worked in laboriooi looms, where, as before, discordant and confused nojse:^ atsail you on even* ^ide. And here frora earliest morn till latest evening, and often all ni^bl long they ply tticir labours, submitting the raw materials of nature to a ihou^and opcralioos over which