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the progress of the mischief that is going on, and 

 not only to commence the work of improvement, 

 but to proceed to the necessary extent in carrying 

 it on, two most important results, at least^ will be 

 produced ; viz.; to Proprietors themselves a very 

 considerable present or prospective advantage in 

 some cases both and a large measure of real 

 benefit to the Labouring Classes, in the increased 

 demand which will be created for the labour of 

 their hands. This last object is so vastly import- 

 ant, that an enlightened and benevolent mind will 

 always be ready to listen to any suggestions that 

 may be thrown out to promote it ; but at a period 

 like the present, when one great constitutional 

 change in our domestic policy has been made, and 

 when there is too much cause to fear that another 

 is about to be tried, each of which is as much 

 an experiment in morals as any thing else, it is 

 invested with a much higher claim on the attention 

 of those to whom the appeal may be made, than 

 in ordinary circumstances it would be. 



It will readily be seen that I refer to the new 

 Poor Law and to the Corn Laws ; the former of 

 which throws the poor man almost exclusively on 



