I approve of all you propose, my dear Dr. Bartlett. You shiill not, you say, be easy, except I will inspect your accounts. Don’t refuse to give your own wor-thy heart any satisfaction that it can receive, by consulting your true friend: but otherwise, you need not ask my consent to any-thing you shall think fit to do. Of one thing, methinks, I could be glad, that only such children of the poor, as shew a pecu-liar ingenuity, have any great pains taken with them in their books. Husbandry and labour are what are most wanting to be encouraged among the lower class of people. Providence has given to men dif-ferent geniuses and capacities, for different ends; and that all might become useful links of the same great chain. Let us apply those talents to labour, those to learning, those to trade, to mechanics, in their different branches, which point out the different pursuits, and then no person will be unuseful; on the contrary, every one may be eminent in some way or other. Learning, of itself, never made anv c 3 man happy. The ploughman makes fewer mistakes in the conduct of life than the scholar, because the sphere in which he moves is a more contracted one. But if a genius arise, let us encourage it: there will be rustics enough to do the common services for the finer spirits, and to carry on the business of the world, if we do not, by our own indiscri-minate good offices, contribute to their mis-ap — plication.

I will write to congratulate Lord W. and his lady. I rejoice exceedingly in their happiness.

I will also write to my Beauchamp, and to Lady Beauchamp, to give her joy on her enlarged heart. Surely, Dr. Bartlett, human nature is not so bad a thing, as some disgracers of their own species have imagined. I have, on many occasions, found, that it is but applying properly to the passions of per-sons, who, though they have not been very remark — able for benevolence, may yet be induced to do right things in some manner, if not always in the most graceful. But as it is an observation, that the miser’s feast is often the most splendid; so may we say, as in the cases of Lord W. and Lady Beauchamp, the one to her son-inlaw, the other to his lady and nieces, that when such persons are brought to taste the sweets of a generous and beneficent action, they are able to behave greatly. We should not too soon, and without making proper applications, give up per-sons of ability or power, upon conceptions of their general characters; and then, with the herd, set our faces against them, as if we knew them to be incor-rigible. How many ways are there to overcome persons, who may not, however, be naturally bene-ficent! Policy, a regard for outward appearances, ostentation, love of praise, will sometimes have great influences: and not seldom is the requester of a Favour himself in fault, who perhaps shews as much self in the application, as the refuser does in the denial.