BRITISH ESSAYISTS;

WITH

PREFACES,

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,

BY

ALEXANDER CHALMERS, A. M.

VOL. XXXI.'

LONDON:

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-Non de villis domibusve alienis,

Nec male necne lepos saltet: sed quod magis ad nos Pertinet, et nescire malum est, agitamus.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. XXXI.

No.
NON Macklin's British Inquisition. Speech

47.

on the Question,-Whether the Stage

might not be made more conducive to

Virtue?..

COL. & THORN.

48. On Christmas. Celebration of it it. Town

and Country. On Christmas Boxes.

This Season disagreeable to Persons of

Fashion..

49. Letter containing a Scheme for a Female

Parliament.- -Usefulness of it, and

Objections against it.-Account of the

Covent Garden Society, consisting of

certain Good-natured Females, divided

into Ladies and Commons...

50. On Suicide. Account of the Last Guinea

Club. Assembly at White's, a kind of

Last Guinea Club. Different Ways of

Suicide between vulgar Persons and

Persons of Fashion. Punishments for

Suicides proposed. Frequency of Self

Murders in England falsely imputed to

the Climate. Despair, brought on by

Extravagance and Debauchery, a Cause

of Suicide.-Free-thinking another.—

Specimen of a Bill of Suicide after the

DUNCOMBE