East Indian sugar in their families, though much dearer than the other, to discredit and cheapen the West Indian sugar, bathed with the sweat and blood of negroes. They signed the petitions to Parliament to put a stop to the barbarous custom, in use at Malabar and other provinces subject to the English Government in India, of the widows burning themselves to death on the funeral piles of their husbands. When the Greeks in the first years of their revolution were in want of powder, of bread, and even of salt, the Quakers were the first to collect for their assistance nine thousand pounds sterling. They form the (unarmed) vanguard of every philanthropic enterprise. The best English grammar was composed by a Quaker, Mr. Murray. The schools of mutual instruction were invented by Mr. Lancaster, and Mr. Allan

made the discovery known, thus spreading through all Europe as it were a vaccination against ignorance. The Infant Schools are now kept in life by the Quakers. discipline of the prisons continually occupies the attention of the sect.

The

But I wish

to point out another improvement originating in them, and which has not perhaps yet been sufficiently talked of in Europe, although it forms the admiration of all the travellers in England.

THE RETREAT;

OR,

LUNATIC ASYLUM, NEAR YORK.

Lunatic Asylums of England compared with those of the Continent Madness of the English-Lunatics in confinement -Physical and Moral Remedies-General Observations.

"Tis the great art of life to manage well
The restless mind."

Armstrong.

I SHALL never be weary of repeating that England is a country rather to make observations, than to seek amusement in ;it is a great scientific treatise. Its theatres

are the arsenals of Deptford and Portsmouth, or the East and West India docks; its paintings are the manufactures of Glasgow, of Manchester, of Leeds, of Halifax : its coliseums, arches, and arenas, are its smoky shops and factories, with which whole provinces are covered; its champselysées are the iron-mines of Wales, the tin-mines of Cornwall, the coal-mines of Newcastle. England is not the island of Alcina, where the inhabitants pass their days in song and careless laughter, to become afterwards plants and beasts. Let us remember, that the English are the men of Europe. They laugh little (perhaps too little), but they study instead how to render life as little unhappy as possible, and to tame and educate the great beast, mankind.

I have often found it useful to confront