in their pleasures, and they will soon feel an aversion to you. Deny your children innocent gratifications. Treat the little mistakes of your children with ridicule. 2. How to make your children distrust you.-Tell them untruths, and break your word with them. 3. How to make your children despise you.-Acquaint them with your faults. Lay many injunctions on them, without seeing whether they be obeyed; threaten them often, without executing your threats; and they will soon laugh at you. 4. How to make your children soon hate and envy each other.-Bestow all your affection on one, and none on the rest. Praise one child when you punish another. Take no notice of the injuries your children do one another, and never examine into the occasions of their quarrels. 5. How to stifle in your children the sentiments of humanity.-Speak evil of people frequently in their presence. 6. How to teach children cruelty.-Instruct them early to take pleasure in the pains and sufferings of animals. 7. How to make your children revengeful.-When they are an gry, give them something to vent their anger upon. When your child is hurt by any one, represent the mischief as very great, and never attribute any blame to him. 8. How to teach children envy.-Represent the happiness of other people as a misfortune to them. 9. How to make children malicious.-When once you have brought them to regret the happiness of others, they will soon take pleasure in their misfortunes. 10. How to make children afraid of certain animals.-Endeavour to persuade them, that they are venomous. 11. How to give children an aversion to people of different religious opinions from themselves.-Tell them, that God hates all who do not believe what they do. Set them a good example of this in your own practice. 1. How to make children insensible to the beauties of nature.-Reprove them when they notice any productions of nature, and call

off their attention by promising them other gratifications. 13. How to teach children to see spirits.-Tell them many stories of ghosts and apparitions. 14. How to make children afraid of thunder.-Always appear greatly alarmed as soon as you perceive a thunder cloud. 15. How to make children afraid of dying.-Represent death to them as the greatest of all evils. 16. How to teach children to hate religion.-Depict God to them as a being to be dreaded. Bring them to an acquaintance with religion, by means not pleasant to them. Inspire them with hatred and contempt for the teachers of religion. 17. How to render children capricious. Do every thing they desire. 18. How to instruct children to tell lies.Excite them early to say what is not true. Laugh at, and reward their lies. Believe every thing they say. Punish them, when they confess the truth. Let your questions give them occasion to tell lies. 19. How to accustom your children early to slander.-Encourage them to speak evil of others. 20. How to make children unhappy and discontented in their stations.-Teach them to view every thing on its worst side. Speak to them highly of things they cannot obtain. 21. How to render children obstinate.-Pay no heed to their modest requests; but consent to whatever they demand with persevering importunity. 22. How to make children useless members of society, and joyless in themselves.— Force them to some employment for which they have neither capacity nor inclination. 23. How to render chil. dren lascivious. Take care, that they always sleep two together. Let them lie very warm, do not suffer them to rise too early. In the choice of a tutor, consider his accomplishments more than his virtue and morals. Caress your wife before them. 24. How to make children voluptuous.-Indulge their appetites in every thing. Let them have plenty of money, without inquiring what

they do with it. Give them dainties, and in giving commend them highly. 25. How to make children gluttons.-Take care that their bellies are always well stuffed. 26. How to render your children weary of being good. --Notice not their endeavours to be good, and they will soon be weary of them. 27. How to make children stupid.-Give them a good box on the ear, every time they forget any thing. Give yourself up to drunkenness, and you will necessarily have stupid children. Make your children prematurely wise, and they will soon become stupid. 28. How to make your children unhandy.-See that they have every thing done for them. 29. How to teach children negligence.-Check early their love of order. 30. How to make children vain.-Instruct them soon in the great value of dress. Introduce them into company as early as possible. 31. How to give children an inclination for idleness.-Represent to them frequently the grievousness of work, and the pleasure of being idle. 32. How to make children covetous.-Instil into them, as soon as possible, high notions of the value of money. 33. How to render children deaf to good advice.-Be incessantly preaching to them their duties. 34. A couple of infalliable means of leading children into all kinds of vice. -Frequently practice before them those vices you wish them to adopt. Leave your children to themselves and

the servants.

35. Universal means of depriving children of health and life.-Make them tender by keeping them extremely warm. Deprive them of fresh air. Accustom them to delicate and dainty food. Give them plenty of medicines. Let them have infirm and unhealthy nurses. 36. An excellent method to make children cripples. Let them wear stays.'

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Having observed in the second number of the Emporium of Arts, an invitation for communications upon the subject of political economy, I am induced to send you the result of some attention and enquiry. It is with diffidence opinions are presented differing from your own; with hopes however that the public may be benefited by your further elucidations. The object of this writer will be gained if these remarks should be the means of engaging abler pens and it is worthy of exertion to approximate the truth, in a science so difficult to develope, that it may be considered in its infancy, its first principles being yet unsettled.

All wealth is derived from the natural productions of the earth, and labour: but as it is labour alone that accumulates a surplus, and even attracts and concentrates produce, without any original possession, labour is entitled to the first place, and industry may be considered the parent of wealth.

A large surplus produce, whether derived from domestic labour, or from capital employing foreign labour, gives a nation prosperity; accumulated and condensed it becomes wealth, which is disseminated through the country by a large consumption; and united, as it must be, with numerous, active and intelligent population, constitutes power.

Of the different opinions which have prevailed, as to the most profitable mode of employing national industry, the principal are embraced in the agricultural and commercial systems.

The agricultural system supposes the greatest advantage to be derived from the multiplication of the productions natural to any country; particularly such as contribute directly to human subsistence.

The commercial system supposes a benefit is derived from a balance of trade; or an excess of exports over

imports.

Agriculture is necessary to subsistence; the employ. ment of the surplus produce is matter of choice: and whenever more that is useful can be obtained by means. of exchange, than can be produced at home, by the same labour and capital which is employed in effecting the exchange; then a portion of the inhabitants may be more profitably engaged in foreign commerce than in domestic employments. And this must always be the case so long as a considerable diversity of circumstances exists among nations. A country possessing favourable soil and climate, valuable productions, and numerous population, with arts highly improved, may dispense with foreign commerce; may enjoy more prosperity without it, than other nations may be able to attain with its assistance but as no nation can possess every advantage, in as great degree as all other nations, a judicious exchange of commodities will always be productive of profit; enriching those individuals whose capitals and services are employed, and rendering them instrumental in diffusing general prosperity.

It is stated that foreign commerce, by a diversion of capital and labour, withholds the means of domestic improvement. In extensive countries certain portions will possess facilities for foreign commerce superior to other portions; and as commercial adventurers seek only the best markets, it may often happen that the commercial districts purchase supplies abroad, which might be furnished, perhaps on terms nearly as favourable, by some other district at home, which thus loses the benefit of the supply. But a limitation of supply to home production would be to establish a system of monopoly, which must always be considered inequitable, except when granted as Vol. II.

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