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    Th $ ttttmer in which , magistrates , treat application * -. fog DMwic Ucmces , or permission for setting in operation juiy scheme of popular amusement—the regulationsabaoxred M . tk& Bnttal } lloseutn respecting the print room , &c—the admowi

    tory notices which it is thought necessary to affix to all . places o £ exhibition to which the large , and as it would appear unruly , family of John Bull is admitted , is a libel on the nation , pro-r claiming the people of England as prone to gross excesses , and wanting in that delicate principle which forbids an individual to

    de&ce or appropriate a public property , or any part of it . The petpk best Know if this be true ; if true , how much longer do they mean to remain under the stigma ; if not true , will they not « eek some means to fehow the falseness of these accusations ? In some town of Germany , the name of which I cannot at this' tooiaent call to mind , there is , on a central spot , a , beanii-i ftil garden free to the people—it has no preservative of brick

    waits fringed with broken glass , no grim porter looking poverty out of countenance , and petrifying infancy with fear- ^ -it baa na safeguard but a notice to the effect that' the garden was created for the advantage of the public , and to the protection of the ^ i bi wi it Is c&rfrfiitted . ' To this garden the people have free and indiscriminate access , yet never is even a flower plucked or any aeb&sh advantage taken * I can imagine few things more honourable

    to fc community than such conduct , and certainly none more ptfWtic—the reverse behaviour is on a par with the wisdom wiltafckitted the goose for the sake of her golden eggs . The folltff to be admired in this instance of derinan good feeling , gf tod imtoe , and good taste , applies not less to its originators tiNtttt ^ fo its enjoyers . T 09 little pppeal is in general made to tfcfe Iw ^ her principles of human nature , too little confidence in their existence reposed or exhibited . We prefer locking our

    doom to unlocking the feelings which would guard our peon prtity 80 mach more truly ; thus the purer motives , uncalled . trltettereised , lie cold and inert , like ore in an unopened tfftinfe , " and meaner motives , stimulated by the precautions aik > pt £ d , me more or less into activity . Fear often provoke * the ctairiger that it dreads , and the insults upon innocence

    wfcicf * Suspicion inflicts , the natural impulse of retaliation will often TeVenge—revenge b y the fatal expedient of becoming gtriHt- A child ( of sufficient strength ) to whom we evince a c&Mkfonee that he can walk , will set off boldly for a march ds hmf £ Btsihe hearth-ni £ , whereas one who is continually wsurae 4 t ^ ftitl iB very tenacious of any attempt to put hi * "beat M # ' # oifeata * t . " Tell the human creature what are iU

    capa-MM » l , eX > r ^ e those capabilities , trust to theiu , and show 1 tlky < M ? trmnt them , do this at the outset , and the wo * fc o £ wHmity i * ** 4 feeted at once and for crer . The bett locks way ; . t 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 748, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/32/