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county; and therefore it is reasonable to suppose, 

 that the sra/r was as good a one for the poor as any 

 in Kn^land. According to this scale, which was 

 printed and published, and also acted upon for years, 

 tin- weekly allowance, for a ///<///. ///> wife and t /in < 

 clul'lrrn, was, according to present money-price-. 1 1 1. 

 M. Thus it had. in the space of twenty-four years. 

 fell from 13.?. Id. to 11.9. 4//. Thus were the people 

 brought to the piir-nn-fif ! Food, fit for men, they 

 could not have with 11*. 4d. a week for five per- 

 sons. 



")'.). One would have thought, that to make a hu- 

 man be i MIT lirr upon -l<f. u t/at/. and find fuel, clothing, 

 </.s-///;/ir. and In-tiffing, out of the 4d., besides 

 eating and drinkinir, was impossible; and one would 

 have thought it impossible for any-thin^ not of hellish 

 l>irth and breeding, to entertain a wish to make poor 

 creatures, and our neighbours too, exist in such a 

 state of horrible misery and degradation as the la- 

 bourers of Knirlaml were condemned to by this scale 

 of 171)."). Ala- ! this v.a< happiness and honour; this 

 wa^ famous livinir : thi< 1 lx. \</. a week was luxury 

 and ffnttfittir, compared to what we ISOW 1'K- 

 MOLD! For now the allowance, according to pre- 

 s-Mif money-prices, is fix. a week for the man, his 

 wife, and three children; that i< i : ', In 



irord* TWO I>K\TK A.\D KIVK SEVENTHS 



OK .\\OTHKK rKNNY, FOR A DAY ! There, 

 that is Knirland now! That is what the base 

 wretches, who are fattening upon the people's la- 

 hour, call "the r/iry of surrounding nations and the 

 tn/nu'nitinn of the world." This is what Sm KUAN- 

 CIS BURDETT applauds; and he applauds the mean 

 and cruel and dastardly rullian<. wnom he calN. "the 

 country S'ejitlrwt'a of Knirland." anil whose i^ 

 .<?//// he cries up; while he well kimw<, thnt if /.? thn/ 

 (and he amongst the rest) who are the real and only 

 cause of this devil-like barbarity, which (and he 

 well knows that too) could not possibly he practised 

 without the constant existence and occasional em- 

 ployment of that species of force, which is so abhor- 



