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we have had, and a Count of the White- Eagle 

 (Rumford), together with a whole troop of soup- 

 kettle philosophers, to teach us how to stew old 

 bones into jelly, and by how little the human 

 body can be sustained ; but not a single man to 

 give us a lecture on the mieans of providing that 

 plenty, that abundance of good living, without 

 which man had better be dead than alive, and 

 for which our country was, for so many ages, so 

 famous. 



4. The great study, of late years, appears to 

 have been, to discover the means of reducing the 

 most numerous and most useful class of the 

 people to exist upon the smallest possible quan- 

 tity of food ; and, failing here. Parson Mal- 

 THUS has suggested the means, improved upon 

 by the infamous Peter Thimble, and the 

 equally infamous Carlile, of checlsing the 

 course of nature in the producing of children. 

 The Parson and his worthy coadjutors never 

 seem to have thought, for a single moment, of a 

 more just distribution of the food already raised, 

 and still less of any means of adding to the quan- 

 tity. The schemes of these worthies not being 

 attended with success, schemes for getting rid of' 

 the people, by sending them out of the country, 

 have, at last, been resorted to, and have actually 

 been brought before Parliament, by Mr. WiL- 

 MOT HoRTON, the patron of the project. 



