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who is under a regimen for a broken limb ; to a person 

 who does no work. and who is, nine times out of ten, 

 unable to take any exercise at all. even thai of walk- 

 ing about, at least in the open air ; if tin- eminent sur- 

 geonsof London deem x/./- shilling anil unit pence 

 irtirili of victuals and drink, a week, necessary to 

 such a patient; if they think th.i for 



so much in such a case; what HUM that man be 

 made of, who can allow to a WO . a man 



fi'iirteen hours every day in the lu'l- 



tnnl ieienpence in//"-/// of vicsuaU and drink for 

 the week! Let me not however a>k what "that 



D be made of; for it is a monsirr and n 

 man: if ji a mmdett d" men : not a murderer with 

 the knife or the pistol, hut with the more cruel in 

 meir ation. And yet. Mieh m 



chinch ai: and x,v/;.srr/7;r. the 



hyp 



tu (/<> </x (In ij iroi'l'l lif dtin,- l,y. and which. ' 

 fi.M chapter to the la>t. menaces them with puni-h- 

 inent, if : 

 widow. 01 



i\"Z T.iit, not only i- the v.;'i.-ut. in a ho-pital. thii! 

 BQ m;i.-ii more BUD] . the working ; 



prifi<inrrti in the fail*; aye. even ti, nns, 



are led belter, and mud; u the worl 



now are ! I i. that 



country of u roast beef and plumb puddinir : '"' that, as 

 the tax-4-aters say it i-. " envy of surrounding nations 

 and admiration of : the country 



WAS all these; but, it is now precisely the rev. 

 of them all. We have , that the limn-.-*! l(i- 



hdt'i \< al!o\v. 1 -J ,/. ;l day: and that will 



buy him a pound and a half of <?<,<{ /,///'/ // </</?/. and 

 no more, not a -mule crumb more. This is all he 

 Well enough mi^ht the Hampshire Baronet, SIR 

 JOHN PoLi.KN, lately, at a meeting at Andover, call the 

 labourers k ' pur.r f/rr//.\\" and say, that they had 

 v /// a mi? to cort-r thrni ! " A pound and a half 

 of breaJ a day, and nothing more, and that, to. 

 Now, then, how fare the prisoner^ 



