not justly deserve? can we be surprized, if the just sentence of the law, has changed the Mahometan paradise of these impostors, into a jail, and a cell; metamorphosed their beauteous Houries, and expensive Pandoras, into surrounding keepers of less tempting aspect; their rich, but ill gotten ornaments, into chains and fetters; and their gay vehicles, equipage, and footmen, into death-boding carts, ropes, and executioners. And oh! that their punishment may end with these temporal chastisements.

The dangerous and crying sin of forgery, a theft which no locks, bars, or guards can fend off, seems also to grow bolder, and more frequent among us. On looking back on the executions of a year or two past, the majority of them will be found to be for this one, more than any other single crime. To what but the want, or corruption of principle can this be imputed? and is not this owing to the neglect of a rational, a pious, and truly virtuous education of infancy and youth? is it not owing to the evil habits, and arts of false pleasure, they are so early initiated in.

May I be permitted humbly and with deference to enquire what schools and academies for either sex do now seriously and worthily imbue the young minds of their pupils with the first principles of our holy religion so as to inspire them with the knowledge and love of God and his laws? And what parents ask this question? and are duly answered and satisfied about it, in placing out their children?

Where is that order and discipline, that diligent pursuit and study of the means of unity, peace, and concord, which are essential to the preserving our excellent constitution.

The effects of an imprudent, relaxed; and ill conducted education diffuse themselves into rising life, in both sexes: who by that means instead of being qualified for, and keeping in view the honourable estate of matrimony, (to which alone an healthful and virtuous progeny, a just and good oeconomy, owe their birth and support,) are disqualified to fill and adorn that state by their dissolute way of thinking and acting; and so become mutual seducers, and betrayers of each others felicity, both present, and future.

Of the dire effects of this fashionable vice of keeping we see a notorious and dreadful instance in one of the unhappy victims to it now before us; who, by the evidence of his own answer on oath, squandered away a sum in one year, on one kept mistress, which, well improved, might found a perpetual maintenance for a virtuous family: a sum that would be inexcusable and reproachful, if so spent by a person of the first quality and fortune in our nation. But if this evidence should appear false from the following pages, it is far from lessening his guilt: it only adds a perjury prostituted to avarice, and lewdness, at once.

Let us now relieve our eyes from these shocking scenes, with the pleasing hope and prospect that all such practices are sure to be discountenanced and suppressed to the utmost, in a reign wherein the royal example is a bright transcript of our laws, a firm support and ornament of our happy constitution.