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trious poor, would be meliorated, and the idle and dissolute would*" 

 be made to contribute towards their support. All thofe who are 

 conversant with the state of the lower class of society, must know 

 that the period of life in which a workman most suffers, is when he 

 has five or six small children. Then it is, that the support of the 

 whole family depends on the father's labour, and his utmost exer- 

 tions are scarcely sufficient to procure them bread ; should sicknefs 

 befal him, he muft contract debts ; and should this repeatedly 

 happen, before he has extricated himself, his spirits are broken, 

 and the love cf Freedom and Independence no longer exists. A 

 degree of torpor and inactivity succeeds, from which he scarcely 

 ever emerges. To the man in this situation, I would, if possible, 

 administer relief; and the bed method I can fuggest, is that of en- 

 couraging, by the authority of Parliament, Friendly Societies, under 

 the regulation of which, the Bachelor might be made to contribute 

 to the support of the married; this would in sgme degree check 

 that disposition to celibacy, which is but too apparent among the 

 lower orders of mankind, and would add to the comfort of wedlock, 

 smd to the populatiotiof the realm. 



A progressive, and too liberal an increase of wages, for daily 

 labour, will lessen the quantum furnished, and will only tend to in- 

 crease the dissolute manners of the poor; whereas the plan sug- 

 gested by the author of the beforementianed tract, would, I hum- 

 bly think, be attended with the happiest consequences both in an 

 individual, and a national sense; and I hope the time is not fin- 

 distant, when this institution, or something similar thereunto, may 

 commence, and the poor be extricated from their present depend- 

 anee, on the scanty bounty of a parish officer, and intitled to claim 

 a support from a fund, to which they have contributed, and to a 

 part of which, they have a legal, and incontrovertible right. 



-it. Where lands are s:tuaie on bleak and exposed eminences, improve 

 ihe climate by judicious and extensive plantations. 



Though i am no advocate for standard trees in fences, yet I 

 rhink large and massy plantations, in elevated situations, are not 

 gnjy ornamental, but profitable. 



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