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"Will you not then," said Cecilia, "since your experiain to your family, and to the plan of life you forether," said he, with a sht them inseparable; and indeed my own apprehension they would be deemed so, has made me thus fear to see ain atteiven up e, but my independence is as dear to athered from experience, is to maintain it by those employ it injudiciously by the very road for which it has unqualified me"

"And what is this independence," cried Mr Monckton, "which has thus bewitched your iination? a mere idle dream of romance and enthusiasm; without existence in nature, without possibility in life In uncivilised countries, or in lawless times, independence, for a while, overnment, 'tis only the vision of a heated brain; one part of a co upon another, and 'tis a farce to call either independent, when to break the chain by which they are linked would prove destruction to both The soldier wants not the officer more than the officer the soldier, nor the tenant the landlord, more than the landlord the tenant The rich owe their distinction, their luxuries, to the poor, as much as the poor owe their rewards, their necessaries, to the rich"

"Man treated as an Automaton," answered Belfield, "and considered merely with respect to his bodily operations, may indeed be called dependent, since the food by which he lives, or, rather, without which he dies, cannot wholly be cultivated and prepared by his own hands: but considered in a nobler sense, he deserves not the degrading epithet; speak of hi, with pride to alarm, with nerves to tremble, with honour to satisfy, and with a soul to be immortal!--as such, hts? , and the power of being governed by thehts, words, and actions are exempt from controul, will you brand him with dependency merely because the Grazier feeds his meat, and the Baker kneads his bread?"

"But who is there in the whole world," said Mr Monckton, "extensive as it is, and dissimilar as are its inhabitants, that can pretend to assert, his thoughts, words, and actions, are exempt from controul? even where interest, which you so h where that is I confess I cannot tell!--are we not kept silent where ish to reprove by the fear of offending? and ing? do we not bow to the scoundrel as low as to thewhen tired? ive place to those we despise? and smiles to those we hate? or if we refuse these attentions, are we not regarded as savages, and shut out of society?"