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"Statistics. “In treating of the population of Eng it would andthe lordsspiritual and temporal sitin onehouse, which Statistics. 
—\— be i not to notice the state of the poor, and the is called the House of Lords; and the representatives 
_ Sate oe mode by" hich they are supported ; and yet dur limits of the people in another, which is called the House of 
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was L,1,530,804 ; 
yet 
us to be brief on this By the 43d 
of hag. 2. every aries to boa to provide 
authority justices 
of the Pe. to rate every parish at such 4 weekly 
money, as they should think necessary for this 
In 1776, a return was made to parliament 
rule palit eapiiedlitard fie ocie year; om sccoont Uf thie 
poor, from which it , that the sum 
that there were 1970 work- 
capable of ing 89,775 In 
1786, another return was made, from which it appear- 
iture for the poor had increased to 
956,248, besides 194,052, who were not parishioners ; 
the expence incurred for them was L.3,061,446. The 
number of persons relieved in and out of work-houses 
was 1,039,716, which se tee 12 per cent. of the 
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by commissioners aj him. He al- 
so has the power to prorogue or dissolve it. Besides 
t prerogatives, as they respect Parliament, 
the “ee 3 epee the privilege of rejecting any bill 
that may have passed both Houses, and consequently 
ing it from being enacted into a law. 
The lords spiritual, as a constituent of Parlia- 
ment, consist of the two archbish 24 bi 
England, and four bi of Ireland. The English 
rose and bishops sit in the U House, from 
their i a being supposed to hold, certain baro- . 
nies under the king. 
The lords temporal consist of all the peers of the 
in their 
The duke is so styled from the 
or general. The title of mar- 
Gothic, and signifies the com- 
a march or frontier. The titles 
also the Gothic, and signify 
Viscount is derived from the 
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Scotch and Irish 
House of Commons consists of knights, citizens, 
and burgesses, os ha by counties, cities, 
and boroughs. The number of representatives sent to 
Parliament, for England, Wales, and the town of Ber- 
i The Scotch and Irish representatives in- 
number to 658 members. No person can 
for a knight of the shire, unless he a free- 
of the annual 
term of years, nor copyhold estates, 
ficial 
ive the of voting. A how 
a eos 
, however, with no trade, and some 
entitled to vote, return members 
every county, for the election of all members to 
serve for that county, and for every city and borougl) 
in it, which possesses the privilege of returning mem- 
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Lords spiri- 
of tual. 
Lords tem- 
several degrees of duke, marquis, earl, poral. 
House of 
Commons. 
