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tendency to preferve that honeft pride and ipirit of 

 independency, which the poor generally lofe when 

 they fubmit to parochial maintenance. 



I have talked with many poor men who are > 

 members of fuch Societies, and they all tell me 

 they live as well as before, and find no difference 

 at the year's end from having paid three-pence 

 per week to their club. To ufe their own language, 

 " they don't feel it." But in times of ficknefs, 

 when they could not labour, they have joyfully felt 

 the comforts which their little publick fund 

 yielded them. 



You will pardon me, gentlemen, for dwelling fo 

 long on the fubjeflj but as it ftrikes me forcibly, 

 I wilh to imprefs your minds with correfpondenc 

 ideas of its utility. 



I am, your's, &c. 



Nov. I, 1783. A MEMBER. 



In confcquence of the preceding letter being 

 laid before the Society, John Anstie,* efq; of 

 Devizes, tranfmitted to the Secretary the follow- 



• The gentleman who has fo honourably diftingui/hed himfelf in 

 detc(£ling and endeavouring to prevent the illicit exportation of wool. 



ing 



