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Show (533) APPENDIX; Containing additional Paper: proper for inform» in the foregoing error/4'. [G. P.] Ruler for a C/uo formerly glad/{flood in Philadelphia 1". Previous queftion, to be anfwered at every meeting. HAVE you read over thefe queries this morn- ing, in order to confider what you might have to offer the Junto [touching] any one of them? viz. ‘ I. Have you met with any thing in the author you 1219: read, remarkable, orluitable to be com- municated to the Junto P particularly in hifiory, morality, poetry, phyfic, travels, mechanic arts, or other parts of knowledge. 1 [This was an early performance; and carries along with it an air of fingularity, accompanied with {uch operative good . {enfe and philanthropv , as ch.:ra&erizes it for Dr. Franklin‘s. It did not come into my pv'fiemnn early enough for ini'errion in the body ofthe work; but it belongs to the divifiou r I'Generul l'oliticn after p. 81. as the chief ends propofed by it tPn'l to the advancement of a State. -The club for which it was written, was held (as 1 h-ve fuppofed) in Philadelphia; and if} am well informed was competed of men confiderable for their influence and difcretion ; for though the chief mcafurea of Peni'ylvania ulirally rereived their firll formation in this club, it exilted for 30 years without the nature of its mfhtunon being publicly known. E.] ‘ 2,. What |