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2. What is now the a£lual rate of common la- 

 bourers wages in your part of the country ? 



3. What is the ordinary proportion of common 

 manufacturers wages to thofe of common labourers 

 in your part of the country, and how far has the 

 former affefted the latter ? 



4. Has there been any, and what, rife in the wages . 

 of labour, both fummer and winter, for the twenty 

 or thirty years preceding 1794-5; <and if any, at 

 what periods, and in what degrees, has it taken place? 



5. Have you known, in faft, unequal prices of la- 

 bour in places near to each other, which may be fup- 

 pofed to have refulted from the operation of the 

 poor laws? 



6. What rife in the price of the neceflaHes and 

 principal conveniencies of life has taken place during 

 the fame period, diftinguifliing each article as parti- 

 cularly as may be ? 



7. Is ta/k-work common in your part of the 

 country, and how much can a man earn per day or 

 week in this way ? 



8. What appears to you to have been the efFeft, 

 in point of population, of increafmg the fize of 

 farms, and inclofmg commons; and has the quantity 

 of land in tillage been thereby fo much diminiflied, 

 as that notwithflanding the improvement of what 

 has continued in tillage, the quantity of grain pro- 

 duced has been lefs than before? 



9. Has 



