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knee, and due deference to fuperior abilities, that i 

 fervant of the Society prcfumes to follow him in re- 

 fle<5tions for the comfort and happinefs, not only of 

 the fame clafs, but of every clafs of labouring people. 



A patriotic fenator* was employed for a feries 

 of y^ars, in framing a bill for the regulation of the 

 Poor Lawsy and thereby to leflcn the general bur- 

 den of the country, by Amplifying the parochial 

 management, guarding againft the fuffering of the 

 worthy, and the impofitions of the idle and licen- 

 tious poor. What, if any, will be the refult of his 

 labours in parliament for thefe ends, is yet to be 

 proved. Every friend to the general happinefs of 

 mankind, muft wifh that fuch a bill may be adopted 

 at laft, as may tend to the aid of virtuous indigence, 

 and the moil efFedlual corredtion of publick abufe. 

 While this great and difficult fubjedb fhall be in agi- 

 tation, it is much to be defired, that gentlemen of 

 kifurc and talents in different parts of the country, 

 would give that attention to it which the liberal 

 views of fo adive an advocate have invited, and 

 which its importance fo loudly calls for. 



In every civilized country its interior political 

 cecoilomy, which involves the moral good and the 



•'Mr. Cnbert. 



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