jiccount of New PtihVications. j ^ \ 



jeftions and inconveniences that attend them under the beft regulations and management, 

 are ftated with clearnefs and perfpicuity. The rules of a fplnning-fchool, eftablifhe'd with 

 fuccefs at Oakham, upon the principles of Count Rumford, is the next in order ;— a fchool 

 where the poor attend with pleafure and regularity, and thankfully receive the benefit of 

 a cheaper and more nouriftiing diet fupplied to them at a very fmall price ; and for thefe 

 reafons fimply :— becaufe they are allowed to continue free agents, and to retain an option 

 on the fubjea ; and becaufe they have the whole of their earnings inviolably at their own 

 dlfpofal. May the example be fpeedily followed in other parts of England ! 



" The fifth is an account of the jail and houfe of corrcftion at Dorchefter. When wc 

 confider the important confequence of what has been effefted there, in annually faving, to 

 the public and to themfelves, many perfons otherwife abandoned to deftruftion, we cannot 

 help lamenting that fo very few fimllar inftances are to be found in the whole kingdom. 

 The principle of this reform will apply, with ftill greater force, to every meafure that re- 

 gards the local and domelUc concerns of mankind; in all of which it will invariably be found, 

 that in proportion as coercion is given up, and the intereR of the party is made the fpring 

 of aftion, temptations to vice will be excluded, and habits of labour and honefty will be 

 gradually acquired. 



"' In the next paper, upon fuel, the reader will find a very gratifying proof that the poor 

 may be eafily reconciled to inclofure, or to any other meafure of putlic benefit, where their 

 own feelings and interefts are only properly confulted. 



•' The laft communication is on parochial relief, and the mode and principle on which it 

 has been adminiftered by the magiftrates of the hundred of Stoke." 



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