THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE, His ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

To the EDITOR of the DYING SPEECHES.

SIR,

THERE are three duties to which all mankind seem expresly obliged. The first is that which we owe to the Immortal Being, who gave us existence, and honoured us with reasoning faculties. - The next is the reverence and esteem we are obligated to pay to our superiors, who are so constituted, in order to the well-being of the community; since without government, which presumes superiority, it is difficult to conceive how peace and happiness could subsist amongst us. - The last is the duty which we owe to each other, as fellow creatures, which is usually stiled humanity. - This partly springs spontaneous from the soul, and is partly founded on education. Men therefore rarely want this social virtue, until all that is good is eradicated from the heart by evil communications; which gradually corrupt, and in process of time, like the maggot in the nut kernel, destroy its vital bloom.

The first step to the want of humanity, is in forgetting the obligations we are under to our Creator. The next is in being wanting of respect to our superiors, and the last of setting too little value on that part of our selves, which chiefly contributes to make us amiable.

The great and the little equally share in the undervaluing the noblest part of their existence, but attended with very