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praflice.'' I on the contrary opine, there Is 

 of both; for, if the money expended in the 

 execution of the prefent poor-laws for remov- 

 ais, colle6tion-charities. Sec, were applied to 

 pay the people for working and cultivating 

 the foil, almofl the whole country might be 

 made like a garden. How many thoufands 

 who are able to work, lounge about doing of 

 nothing ! What might not thefe idlers, if pro- 

 perly employed, efFedt i when the few who ac 

 prefent do work, maintain themfelves and fo 

 many thoufands who labour not and are of no 

 more ufe to fociety than a pack of hounds — . 

 fit only to confume! 



In the year 1785, when an alarm of a fam- 

 ine prevailed, I was ftruck with amazement 

 to hear folks talking of wanting in a coun- 

 try like this; when I was certain I could in- 

 creafe the produce ten-fold in every parifli I 

 knew ; and in many of them there were great 

 numbers of idle people to be employed in 

 improving the land. There need not be ten 

 times as much more raifed as there is, to ena- 

 ble the farmer to bring ten times as much to 

 market; for the quantity of provifions allowed 



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