528 Sir Charlis Bunhuiy. — Employment of the Poor. [July I, 



high-wrought scene, to majter of smal- To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



ler interest. It mi^ht he practicahle tO SIR, 



point out some languid or prosaic pas- XN answer to your correspondent, Mr. 

 sages, and the hroken style of the ver- X Wright, respecting the best means 

 sification is not always to our taste, of employing the poor, and of detecting 

 But we cannot dwell on these blemishes the impositions practised by them upon 

 when our admiration is irresistibly those appointed to administer their re- 

 commanded by the high strain of poetiy lief, I subjoin a summary a<count of 

 and the bold and vigorous tone of an economical reform eftected during 

 thought, which are as conspicuous in the last three yejirs in the parish of 

 this tragedy, and in the Prophecy of Clerkenwell, under the management 

 Dante which accompanies it, and to of a " New Board of tiuardians of the 

 which we cannot now more fully ad- Poor," Jicting with the professed object 

 vert, as in the best former productions of correcting the errors and vices of tlie 

 of this poet. old system. Should it not prove a 

 — ^ — pattern to Mr. Wright's taste for imi- 

 To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. J-'^l'""' 't "lay answer the purpose to 

 siR^ him, and to otiiers, as an example to 



THERE arc several incidental mis- ^'*'*<^''- ^^ '^'^ events, it may be useful 



takes, not indee^d of any great mo- to the public in general, by shewing 



menf, in the memoir of the late Sir "'*^ necessity there is of keeping a 



Charles Bunbury, which appeared in ^vali'l'f'i' cy<^ upon tlieir parochial cx- 



vour last Number. With your per- l»''udituie, at a time when select vestry 



mission I will correct (hem. !*''•'* *"« coming into fashion, and ap- 



Sir Charles was not born at Great F**'" *^ ^^ favourite objfn:ts in certain 



Barton, but at Mildcnhall, and his qi'-iileis. The statement is as follows; 



birth-day was May 21st, 1740. The VVliole expenditure in 1817- 



account of his winnings and risk at 1^, u''der the Old Board, 



Epsom, when Smolensko won the Der- ^vheu 6(,7 mdividuak are 



Kir Gfoi-«o „„.:*»„.. i.„>*'i e Slated to have been m the 



by Stakes, written hastily from me- Hn.i«n -pit «'.« a a. 



mory, is considerably incLect Ac- Do" clT in ISlS-lo; under^'"'"'' ' ^ 



cording to a memorandnin which I the NevBoard, when 566 



have since found.and which was noted individuals were in the 



irom Sir Charles's own mouth, soon House 15 730 19 8 



after his return from Epsom, his sue- Do. do. 1819-20, 502 in the ' 



cessful bets on Smolensko upon that House 15,348 5 3 



occasion, amounted to six thousand Do. do. 1820-21, 493 do. . 15,388 13 8 

 pounds, at the risk of three thousand No%v it appears from the above state- 

 three hundred pounds, had the horse ment. that (he aggregate decrease of 

 been beaten. It lias been lately re- expenditure of (he three last years, 

 ported m the new.spapers, that this fa- compared with the expenditure of the 

 mous horse has become the property of year 1S17-1S', and taken as the stan- 

 FnuceEsterhazy,arcportvoidof foun- dard, is f 4640 15s., and the decrease 

 dation. Smolensko was purchased at of expenditure, for the same period, 

 the price of thirteen luuulied guineas, npon the four items, '• Casual Poor, 

 by Richard Wilson, Esq. of Lincoln's Weekly Pensions, InfanfPoor,and Ma- 

 iun-square, an old friend of Sir Charles tron'sDisbursemeuts''is£4612.15s.l0d. 

 Bnnbury. The ancient Sorcerer, sire which leaves a saving to the parish of 

 ot the greater number of (his famous £2?. 19s. 2d. So that here is one-seventh 

 sturt ot horses, has not been forgotten of the whole number of the poor of 

 m the will of his late kind and benefi- 1817-18 " weaned" and got rid of, in 

 ceiit master. The old horse inherits a the first year of the reform system ; 

 Ute estate in (he place where he has so and an average oi one-fourth " weaned" 

 comfor(ably spent his whole life, and and got rid of, in the two last years, 

 which has been (he (heatre of his useful without the intellieible saving, to the 

 exertions He is not to be removed parish, of a single fiuthing. Although 

 Irom Ins long-accustomed loose stable, it seems natural to expect, (hat the re- 

 iuitt trom those soft and grassy pad- ductiou or decrease, in (he first year, 

 docks over winch he gamboled in the of one-seventh, and in the two succeed- 

 (lays ot his youth, until his las( race be ing years of one-fourth of (he whole 

 run and death himself shall have joe- number of poor of 1817-18, should 

 kiert Inm (o the ending post. J.ave caused a corresponding decrease 

 ^tners J own. John Lawrence, of (he whole expenditure of (hat year : 



which 



