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average, from 1800 inclusive. We will now proceed 

 to see how the " popish, priest-ridden" Englishman 

 stands in comparison with the " No Popery" Eng- 

 lishman. 



POPISH M W NO POPERY MAN'. 



*. d. a. d. 



Mowing an aero of gross - - 6 3 7| 



Thrashing a quarter of Wbei 04 40 



Here are " wanst improvements, Mau'm !" But, now 

 let ii^ look at the- relative price of the wheat, which 

 the labourer hail to purchase with his wages. We 

 have seen, that the " popish superstition slave" had 

 to give tbr his wheat, and the evi- 



dence of Mr. GEORGE states, that the "enlightened 

 ant" ha 1 x a bushel for his 



: that i< til fines as much as the " popishybo/," 

 who suffered himself to be "priest-ridden." So that 

 the " enlightened" man. in order to make him as well 

 tiie "d'lrk-ui'"*" man wa<. <ui:ht to receive 

 twelve ,v/< ////// :rx. instead of 'A*. !\<l. I'.r mowing an 

 acre of grass ; and he, in like manner, ought to re- 

 ceive, for thrashing; a quarter of wheat, i-iirht shil- 

 . instead of the fnur shillings which he does 

 receive. If we had the records, we should doubtless 

 find, that IRELAND was in the same state. 



56. There ! That settles the matter as to ancient 

 good living. Now, as to the progress of poverty and 

 misery, amongst the working people, during the last 

 half century, take these facts ; in the year 1771, that 

 is, 55 years ago, ARTHUR YOUNG, who was afterwards 

 Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, published a 

 work on the state of the agriculture of the country, 

 in which he gave the allowance for the keeping of a 

 f.irm-lahnnrer. his ir//t' and three children, which 

 allowance, reckoning according to the present mo- 

 ney-price of the articles which he allows amounted 

 to 13*. !(/. He put the sum. at what he deemed the 

 lowest possible sum* on which the people could 

 Alas ! we shall find, that thev can be made to exist 

 upon little more than one-half of this sum! 



