Peere =] 
promoting the very defirable end of conffant employment, 
which will, I believe, be generally found the moft effe&ual 
means of preventing the occafion of Mr. Pew’s parenthefis, 
( ultimately certain of parith relief.’””) 1 admit that my 
plan of forming a permanent fund for each parifh does not 
feem calculated to remove the evil Mr. Pew complains of 
in this parenthefis; but my plan does not propofe to diftri- 
bute the intereft of that fund under lefs rigorous reftrictions 
than the poor’s rates are; and when one confiders that pau- 
pers cannot be legally relieved, till the parifh officers have 
taken their bed from under them, it is no difcouragement 
to friendly focieties, nor any great encouragement to fquan- 
dering. 
The ufe of the badge is fo obvious, that it feems ftrange 
it is not oftener adopted: it was once tried in this parifh, 
and reduced the rates confiderably; but the initials happen- 
ing to be the fame with thofe of the magiitrate’s name, they 
called it his brand, and he did not perfevere in it; and till 
the hope of gaining popularity can be expunged from the 
few inducements which generally engage gentlemen in the 
troublefome, unprofitable, and often invidious office of 
magiftrates, perhaps this unpopular meafure will not be ge- 
nerally enforced. 
Every man | employ, but one, is as fprucely dreffed on a 
Sunday, as I with to fee them: the exception is a man near 
70, who has been remarkably expert at moft kinds of work, 
and when I firft employed him, was the only man here who 
could plafh a hedge; he has been ufed to taken-work, and 
earned more than his neighbours, and retains his old cuftom 
of fpending half what he earns in the week at the ale-houfe 
on Sunday; and if it has been too much to get through on 
that day, he would always finifh the /audable work before he 
would begin any other on the Monday! Would magiftrates 
refufe 
