IX.] CORN IS APPICABLE. 



bit of fire gives him cakes in an hour; an- 

 other prepares other cakes to take a-field ; 

 and I say, that that gentleman, who, having the 

 knowledge himself, would not take the pains to 

 instruct the labourer to do this thing; but, know- 

 ing how to prevent it, would suffer him still to 

 run on tick or tally, at the chandler's shop, where 

 there is a profit charged even upon the profit of 

 the baker ; I say, that such a gentleman (if 

 gentleman he can be called) ought to share the 

 fate of Dives, and to be answered by this poor 

 man, as DrvEs was when he appealed to Abra- 

 ham to allow the poor man of his day to 

 bring a drop of water to cool his tongue. 

 When one reflects on the time which has been 

 spent, on the books that have been published, 

 and on the schemes which have been hatched 

 and attempted to be put into force for providing 

 food for the needy in times of dearth ; when one 

 reflects on the regulations, which, with this view, 

 have been adopted in large public schools, such 

 as Christ's Hospital, which by-the-bye is said 

 to have been founded by the Protestant king 

 Edward the Sixth, though it was founded by our 

 Catholic ancestors six hundred years before the 

 birth of that pious infantine tyrant, who saw the 

 first paupers ever known in England, and who, 

 instead of a law to provide relief for them, 

 passed a law for the burning of them in the 



