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gyman of 30Ol. a year could not afford to drink 

 wine : the assertion was received with some doubt, 

 not by me, for I believe it is correct, and that cal- 

 culation would prove it. Your free income of 4001. 

 will admit of no excess in any thing, which is easily 

 proved. Suppose we allow 6ol. for the dress of 

 yourself and wife, and 20l. for that of your children 

 (being young); wages of two maids and a boy, 151.; 

 garden labour, IQl.; necessary repairs of furniture, 

 books, newspaper, stable sundries, garden ditto, 

 &c. !5l.; here are 1201.; remain 28Ol : this is 5l. 8s. 

 a week for house- keeping, medical assistance, cha- 

 rity, and every unforeseen expence ; and this with 

 children that are young. There is further to be de- 

 ducted that saving, which, at all events, is to be 

 looked to in the first instance, be it but the eight 

 shillings. 



" Is it not evident, from this account, that such 

 an income must be managed with an economy ap- 

 proaching privation in many articles, or distress 

 must enter ? In conversation, an estate of 6ool. a 

 year is sometimes talked of in a style that; shews the 

 world does not calculate. The gross income has 

 no more to do in such accounts than the income of 

 the Great Mogul ; bring it to the net receipt, 

 taxes, &e. paid, and then you will find ground for 

 very different ideas. But these few items are suf- 

 ficient to prove, that an estate of 6ool. a year will 

 not permit its owner to keep a footman, nor anv 

 carriage beyond a whiskey, without drawing on a 

 farm in hand, or reducing house-keeping to pe- 

 nury 



