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in a great meafure for the neceffity of levying fuch 

 immenfe fums annually for the fupport of the poor 

 in England. While it is perfedlly certain, that a 

 perfon living in Northumberland, or North Britain, 

 on ordinary fare, will do fully as much work, and to 

 as much purpofe, as a Northamptonfliire plough- 

 man, who is maintained at a much greater ex- 

 pence. 



POOR-RATES. 



The poor-rates vary greatly in this diftridt ; in 

 the country villages they run from 2 s. to 5 s. in the 

 pound of real rent, paid by the tenant to his land- 

 lord, and in the towns much higher, particularly at 

 Kettering, where, owing to the late decline in the 

 woollen manufadlure, they are advanced fo high as 

 12 s. in the pound. 



It might juftly be deemed prefumption in the 

 writer of this Report, were he to enter fully into the 

 difcuffion of a fubjedl fo complicated as that of poor- 

 rates ; in the inveftigation of which, fo many 

 able pens have been employed. He cannot how- 

 ever avoid remarking, that the evil appears to be 

 getting to fuch a height, as will render it foon ne- 

 ceflary to adopt fome meafures more efFedual than 

 any that have hitherto been attempted, in order to 

 keep this heavy tax within any reafonable bounds. 

 And what is of ftill more importance, to curb that 

 fpirit of licentioufnefs, which fo generally reigns 

 within the walls of a parifli work-houfe, from 

 whence fliame and honell pride feem to be for ever 

 banilhed. 



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