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11. Certainly they did. Meat, including bacon, 

 13 become too dear to be often compaffed; and beer, 

 home-brewed, fuch as the cottager was formerly fur- 

 niflied with from malt at 3s. — 3s. 6d. — or at moil: 

 4s. per bufliel, is now, from the enormous price of 

 barley, and the advance of duties, (confequent on 

 the two or three lafl wars) quite beyond their reach. 

 This has been the cafe for feveral years. 



1 2. Potatoes are in general ufe: and but for them, 

 it is hard to fay how any family, where there are 

 children, and where private aid is .not given, could 

 exift without parifli pay. 



13. More contented than could be expefted: at 

 leafl: not turbulent. And it is hoped the awe of au- 



.thority will be fufficient to preferve peace. 



14. This is a queflion which cannot be anfwered, 

 unlefs returns had been procured — but the number 

 is certainly increafmg. 



15. Progreffively increafmg; but the proportions 

 would require an aftual, and laborious furvey, to be 

 afcertained. 



16. Numerous are the Friendly-Societies and Box- 

 Clubs. The poor are fond of them: their effefts 

 uniformly good. Such inftitutions fliould be encou- 

 raged by Government, as an objeft of high import- 

 ance, next in magnitude to a General Inclofure Bill. 

 Thofe two objects, fpeedily and ardently attended to, 

 would do more towards diffufing llrength and hap- 



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