286 Public Establishment for 



opening thin pieces of elastic wood, covered with bird- 

 lime, to rob the boxes. This was prevented in the 

 new boxes, by causing the money to descend through a 

 sort of bag, with a hole in the bottom of it, or rather a 

 flexible tube, made of chain-work, with iron wire, sus- 

 pended in the middle of the box. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Apology for the Want of Method in treating the Sub- 

 ject under Consideration. — Of the various Means 

 used for encouraging Industry among the Poor. — Of 

 the internal Arrangement and Goverjtment of the 

 House of Industry. — Why called the Military Work- 

 house. — Of the Manner in which the Biisiness is 

 carried on there. — Of the various Means used for 

 preventing Frauds in carrying on the Business i7i 

 the different Manufactures. — Of the flourishing 

 State of those Manufactures. 



THOUGH all the different parts of a well-arranged 

 establishment go on together, and harmonize like 

 the parts of a piece of music in full score, yet in de- 

 scribing such an establishment it is impossible to write 

 like the musician in score, and to make all the parts of 

 the narrative advance together. Various movements, 

 which exist together, and which have the most intimate 

 connection and dependence upon each other, must 

 nevertheless be described separately ; and the greatest 

 care and attention, and frequently no small share of ad- 



