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derations. Permit me now toaddrefs you in your 
private capacity, and follow my pencil marks as I 
find them in the margin; and fhould I be fo for- 
tunate as to ftate any part of the fubject, in a point 
of view which you may think worth communicating 
to the fociety, to requeft you to lay it before them. 
In page 217, you fay ‘ fome have held forth the neceffity 
of large buildings, &c.’’ I flatter myfelf we do not think 
widely different on this fubject; to fhew you my opinion, I 
inclofe you a copy of an anonymous letter I fent many years 
ago to the Norwich newfpaper, but which was never in- 
ferted.—‘* One inconvenience which the cottagers in the 
“ neighbourhood of thefe great houfes experience, is, that 
“ the fpinning matters find it fo much eafier to collect their 
“work at them, than by going along round for it, that 
“they are unwilling to fupply the cottagers with work. 
*¢ On the other hand, the horrid filth in which too many 
** of the infirm and aged exift, in the/r miferable dwellings, 
‘in which the different ages and fexes are crowded together, 
* is certainly a crying evil.” ; 
But miferable as it appears, it is an Englith proverb, which 
fays “ home is home, be it ever fo homely;’’ and I feel a 
pride in being told that home is not exprefied by one word 
in any language but our own: may I not hope, that in time 
the furplus of the increafing fund, which I recommend, may 
be applied to providing more comfortable homes for many ! 
In page 221, Mr. Pew fays, “ being too much the cuftom 
“¢ with them (ultimately certain of parith relief) to fquander 
“ immediately all they get, be it little or much:” I believe 
it will be generally admitted, that thofe who earn moft, fquan- 
der moft, May not the evil be often traced to taken-work ? 
which 
