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It mufl: be admitted, notwithftanding, that when 

 the land to be inclofed is properly meadow or pafture 

 land, that is, would be of more value if converted 

 to dairy or grazing farms, than continued under the 

 plough, a converfion of this fort would materially 

 affeft, and does, wherever it happens, materially 

 affeft the poor, who are tied to their pariflies by 

 the poor laws, and cannot emigrate with their fa- 

 milies in queft of bread. 



The fcanty allowance of a parifli, to alleviate the 

 wants of ilarving children, is poor compenfation to 

 an honefl hard-working father, for the lofs of that 

 labour by which he had hitherto cheerfully fuftained 

 them -y and fome palliative (hould be applied to all 

 thefe heart-breaking cafes. 



The capital machines of late invention and unri- 

 valled excellence, applied to our flaple manufaflories, 

 though at firft complained of, have added in a ten- 

 fold ratio to the labours of the infant poor, and the 

 energy of the manufa£lurer. 



The next item to be confidered in the catalogue 

 of injuries is, in my apprehenfion, of a much more 

 ferious nature, and requires the deliberate investiga- 

 tion of the mod confummate abilities, before a re- 

 medy can with fafety be applied ; let it be my humble 

 office to point it out. 



To almofl every common-jfield, comm.on, or wafle 

 within the kingdom, there are cottage rights an- 

 nexed ; 



