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Not to affume any merit in what I have felt by 
being witnefs to fome inftances of tyranny towards 
miferable objects, which the laws of this free coun- 
try fix to a {pot as effectually as a dog is chained 
to his kennel; you will admit me to have fome 
feeling on another. fcore, which is, that a confider- 
able portion of my little property pays near ten fhil- 
lings in the pound to the poor’s rate. My op-. 
portunities of information of the different plans 
which have been propofed to reduce it, have been 
very confined; but f have given my utmoft atten- 
tion to every converfation I have heard.on the 
fubject. 
Anobfervation from a very fenfible man (the late 
Sir John Turner) many years ago, made a deep 
impreffion on my mind. He ridiculed the idea of 
the poor’s rates being originally intended for the 
comfort of the paupers; their primary objeét being 
to fix the labourers to their parifhes; and I think 
we muft admit, that where they are enforced by in- 
terefled perfons, they are calculated to anfwer the 
end with a vengeance! 
_ That the object is highly defirable, nay, abfo- 
lutely neceffary, I not only admit, but maintain. 
letter in the arrangement for the prefent volume, without exprefling 
his particular happinefs that his fentiments in the laft volume, on 
the very interefting queftion relative to the Poor Laws, has met 
the approbation of Sir Mordaunt Martin, whofe correfpondence 
and friendfhip he cannot but efteem both a pleafure and an honour. 
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