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(c) From Sir Thomas Beevor : — " Thefe eflablifhments, 

 **• militating with every principle of humanity and political 

 " interefl, and not unfrequently with thofe of morality, can- 

 " not be too often, or too much reprobated, and though this 

 " may not feem the proper place to enter into any detail of 

 •' the fubjett, yet, perhaps, it may not be quite foreign to the 

 " purpofe of this view, (omitting the article of inhumanity, 

 11 which muft arreft the obfervation of every one who knows 

 " the powers and management of them) to point out the in- 

 jury the public fuftains, from thefe inftitutions, in the lofs 

 ** of labour and corruption of manners. — With refpeft to the 

 ■• firft, it appears, that in the year, from 1783 to 178.J, the 

 «* number of paupers in the workhoufes at Norwich was 

 " 1301, the earnings of whom, in the year, were only 1029I. 

 •• 10s. 8d. and in that from 1785 to 1786 the number of 

 " paupers was 1600, the earnings 1425I. 12s. or 17s. 8d. per 

 " head, per ann. not quite Ad. per diem — and in the houfe 

 " of induftry at Wicklewood, the earnings, of the paupers are 

 '« ufually about 15s. per bead, per ann. little more than |d. per 

 " head, per diem — and if it be allowed, that one-half (which 

 " is more than the due proportion) be incapable of work, 

 " the refult will be only double the above pitiful fums : the 

 •' reafon of thofe accounts being taken from the fpeciiied 

 " years, is folely becaufe at that time it was made the fubjeft 

 *' of enquiry by the writer of thefe remarks. As nothing 

 " ftimuldtcs to induflry fo much as intcrcil, and the man who 

 " works for another, will ever contrive to do as little as poi- 

 " hblc, there arc but few hopes of amendment in this point- 

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