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A COTTAGE AND GARDEN 
to the honest and and industrious, and at 
the same time the- favourite resort. of the 
dissolute and abandoned; the dirt, the 
waste, the disorder, the. want of regulation, 
and the iindistinguishiilg treatment* of the 
worst and best characters, being as gratify- 
ing to them, as they are irksome and dis- 
gusting to the well disposed poor. 
Let us consider what must be the effect 
The situation of this system on the' cottager, 
of the cottager — Tenant to the farmer who 
stated. i ias taken his cottage over his 
head, he is aware that his new landlord 
will require as much rent as he can contrive 
to pay. He has a young and increasing 
family; and, when times'are at the best, 
he often finds it as much as he can do to 
go on, from one day to another, hr their 
support. He can hardly expect that du- 
rino- the severity of the winter, the high 
price of bread, or the visitation of sickness; 
his' earnings will always, and at all seasons, 
continue equal to the necessities of his 
family. If the hour of adversity arrives, 
he knows the rule of his parish, that " no 
* An English workhouse is the only place upon earth, 
where the idle have the same allowance of food, and the 
same accommodation, as fhe industrious. In the table 
of diet of the Rasphouse of Rotterdam, there is a great 
difference made between those who do full work, and 
those who only work half task. In theestablishment .at 
Munich, mere necessaries are allowed for those who do 
not work — for tlipse who do, comforts and luxuries. 
