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    Are often not able to pay the expense ^ so that the prisons of Paris are crowded with wretched fathers and mothers confined pour mois de nourice ; though it is laudably a favorite charity to pay for them , and set such prisoners at liberty . I wish success to the new project of assisting the poor to ^ keep their children at home , because I think there is no nurse like a

    mother , ( or nat many ) and that if parents did not immediately send their infants out of their sight , they would , in a few days begin to lovethernj and thence be spurred to greater industry for their maintenancci , This is a subject you understand better than I , and therefore having perhaps said too much , I drop iU 1 only add to the notes , a remark from the history of the Academy of Sciences , rnuch in favour of the Foundling Institution ^

    The Philadelphia Bank goes on , as I hear , very well . What you call the Cincinnati institution * is no institution , of our goyernment , but a private Convention among the officers of our jate army , and so universally disliked by the people that it is supposed it will be dropt . It was considered as an attempt to establish something like ^ n ~ hereditary rank or nobility * I hold with you that it was wrong ; may I add that all descending honours are wrong and absurd : that the honour of virtuous

    actions appertains only to him that performs thern , and is in its nature incoitimunicable . If it were communicable by descent , it must also be divisible among the descendants , and the more ancient the famil y ^ the less would be found existing in any one branch of it ; to say nothing of the greater chance of unlucky interruptions ; .. >' . Our constitution seems not to be well understood with you .

    If the Congress were a permanent bodyy there would be more reason in being jealous of giving it powers * . But its members are chosen annuall y ^ cannot be chosen more than three years successively ^ nor more t han three years in seven , and any of them maybe recalled at anytime , whenever their constituents shall be dissatisfied with their conduct . They are of the people ,

    and return again to mix with the people ^ having no more durable pre-eminence than the different grains of sand in an hourglass . Such an assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Jiberty . They are the servants of the people , sent together to do the people ' s business and promote the public welfare ; their powers must be sufficient , or their duties cannot be performed

    -They have no profitable appointments , but a mere payment of daily wage $ 5 such as are scarcely equivalent to their expenses , so that haying no chance for great places and enormous salaries ¦ Projected 1111783 , and named after the Roman Dictator ; For an account of this society , and the alarm it excited in America , see Gordon ' s Am . War , iv , 3931 £ cc , and Mojsc ' a Am . Gcog . 8 vo . adedit . p . 114 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/27/